Drag-And-Drop Email To A Desktop Folder

If you get as much email as I do, this is a handy trick to keep yourself organized and on top of things.  This works fine with both Outlook Express and Outlook. -etLux

Step 1.

Create a folder on your desktop.  To do this, right-click over any blank area on your desktop.  Select New from the menu, then select Folder.  This will create a new folder on your desktop.  Name it Urgent -- or whatever suits you.  [Note: You can, of course, create several such folders, if you wish.]

Step 2.

Open Outlook Express (or Outlook, if that's what you use.)  Over an email message you would like to copy to the Urgent desktop folder, click and hold the right mouse button.  Drag over a blank area on the taskbar until the desktop shows -- then drag over your Urgent folder.  Release the right mouse button.  A menu will pop up -- select Copy.

A copy of your email is now in the Urgent folder.

Step 3.

To open the email from the Urgent folder, double-click on the Urgent folder, then double-click on the email in that folder that you would like to open.  You can then view, answer, reply, forward, print, etc., just as you would from within Outlook Express.

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