The Best Way to Backup Outlook Emails

Back up your Microsoft Outlook emails.

Microsoft Outlook is a productivity application that lets you manage your email, contacts and calendar. The application has a feature that allows you to archive your old email so that one day you can refer to it if needed. The archiving feature takes about five minutes to operate.

Instructions

1. Open your Outlook application.

2. Hit "File" in the main menu bar. Scroll down and click "Archive."

3. Hit the radio button next to "Archive all folders according to their AutoArchive settings" or "archive this folder and all subfolders" at the top of the window that appears. If you choose the "archive this folder and all subfolders," highlight the email folders that you wish in the window.

4. Hit the drop-down box next to "Archive items older than" and choose a date.

5. Hit the "Browse" button and choose a place to save the .pst file. This file will contain archived email. Hit the "OK" button.

References

• Birmingham-Southern College: How To Archive Outlook Email