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Using Folders to Organize Your Email

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Creating Folders

You can create as many personal folders as you like and use them to organize your incoming and outgoing email messages.

 

Here’s How

  1. Next to the Folders label or the My Folders label on the left side of your Yahoo! Mail page, click the Add link. (It’s next to the Folders label if you don’t have personal folders and the My Folders label if you at least one personal folders).

    Click the Add link.

    A window opens where you can type the name of the folder.

  2. Type a folder name in the window, then click the OK button.

    Type a folder name, then click the OK button.

    Tip: Folder names can include letters, numbers, and the hyphen (-), space ( ), and underline (_) characters only.

    Your new folder appears alphabetically under the My Folders label in the folders list.

    The new folder appears in the folders list.

 

What’s Next

Organize your Yahoo! Mail messages by moving them into folders.

 
 
 

Words to Know

  • Personal folder: a mail folder that you create and use to organize your email messages.