Store my criteria/rules in one place?

Question

I created a conditional formatting rule to highlight certain emails (sent directly to me, doesn't contain some text in subject, does contain other text in subject, etc).

This works great, but now I want to create a search folder with the same criteria. Do I really have to go through the SAME dialogue boxes and do this all over again? That seems really dumb. How can I access that same criteria I set for my conditional formatting rule and create a search folder out of it?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, there is no way to copy your criteria to Search Folders other than using the manual way.

Answer 2

You can export the rule, then re-import it.

• Under Rules and Alerts, click Options
• Click Export Rules and select a destination for the .rwz, click Save
• Click Import Rules and select the .rwz file

Then edit the parameters of the duplicate rule.