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How to File or Move a Message Quickly in Windows Live Hotmail

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If you have created folders to keep your Windows Live Hotmail (or MSN Hotmail) Inbox clean, the next (and last!) step is filing messages to these folders with consistency. Fortunately, you can also do it with ease.

Windows Live Hotmail lets you file a single message when you're just looking at it. Doing this whenever you have finished reading an email (that needs no reply) is probably the surest way of achieving a pristine Inbox. But you can also select one or more emails in any Hotmail folder and move them with much the same command.

File or Move a Message Quickly in Windows Live Hotmail

To file or move a message quickly in Windows Live Hotmail or MSN Hotmail:

  • Open the message or make sure its checkbox is selected in the folder.
  • Click Move to (Put in Folder in MSN Hotmail).
  • Select the desired folder.
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