Show More If you’re overwhelmed by too much email in Microsoft Outlook, don’t despair! We can show you how to get rid of email you don’t want by using filters, rules, folders, and Outlook’s own Focused Inbox. As a bonus, we’ll even show you how to use Gmail to manage your Outlook email, too—it sounds weird, but it works. And, of course, we’ll show you to auto-delete and archive old email. How to filter email in Outlook Microsoft Outlook exists as both a standalone app within Microsoft 365, as well as a web app. You can work within either, and your changes will propagate inside both versions. Unfortunately, the two differ from one another in both look and feel. Even worse (and yes, this is dumb), there are features that are available in one Outlook app but not the other, meaning that you may need to shift back and forth. We’ll provide instructions for each.