How do I move bulk emails from Microsoft Outlook inbox to a outlook inbox sub folder?

I need to move 600 pages of inbox emails into a single inbox sub folder and don't see a way to select multiple pages in one go. Any ideas?

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Wendy

Posted 2013-11-08T16:34:25.380

Reputation: 99

Microsoft Outlook is a program, but it doesn't paginate the inbox. Most likely this is outlook.com or owa. I find it hard to believe MS has not implemented a filter or select all in OWA and/or Outlook.com. Competitors have it. – Xalorous – 2017-04-21T20:16:54.460

1So after highlighting one message and hitting "Ctrl-A" to Select All doesn't work? Which version of Outlook are you using? Which OS? – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2013-11-08T16:38:34.203

2Talking about "pages"... I think Wendy means OWA, not Outlook. – thims – 2013-11-08T17:53:12.143

Answers

You can't.

According to a Microsoft Representative (who by the way was very nice), in Outlook.com (the web version) you can not select an entire folder for the purposes of moving the emails to another folder. You can select all and toggle read or unread, but not move.

Our work around was to log into that email with the resident outlook program (not the web) and make the big move there. (we moved 12,000 emails to a specific folder) Then we went back to using the web version. Sorry for the bad news.

user675198

Posted 2013-11-08T16:34:25.380

Reputation: 159

1Not sure why this was not upvoted or selected as the answer. This is entirely true and what we had to do also. – ErocM – 2017-02-03T18:08:32.240

This is not true! All you have to do is sort by type. Outlook cannot move dissimilar items into the Inbox, but if you sort by all mail, calendar, etc, you can just drag-and-drop as many items as you like. – SamAndrew81 – 2017-04-12T20:49:39.947

@ErocM The question is badly worded. The answer may apply to the real question, but the answer does not apply to the question, as written.

If the OP is truly using MS Outlook (the program, not the website), this answer is 100% wrong. Outlook will allow you to select all. If OP needs to work with outlook.com, the answer may be better. However, I disbelieve there's no way to 'select all' in Outlook.com when gmail has it. – Xalorous – 2017-04-21T20:12:26.750

Create a filter rule that matches all the mails you need, set the action to move to folder, execute immediately and remove the rule afterwards.

OR if you can only filter based on what to keep in the inbox:

Set a rule that moves away all mails you want to keep to a temp folder, then one to move ALL mails to the subfolder, then move back the temp mails (possibly with modified rule 1)

eFloh

Posted 2013-11-08T16:34:25.380

Reputation: 186

For the desktop version of Outlook (2013 for mine) after clicking CTRL+A I simply right click and choose the Move menu option to move the entire folder into a different folder.

user720899

Posted 2013-11-08T16:34:25.380

Reputation: 21

gave you +1 back. The downvote person is assuming outlook.com. Which is a poor assumption since the question is poorly written. – Xalorous – 2017-04-21T20:14:14.963

Does not work on desktop version either: ctrl+A only select what was loaded from server (limited to a few hundred emails), not all emails that match the request. – Guillaume – 2019-07-01T13:48:52.027

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Ctrl-A to select everything.
Or select the first email. Scroll down to the last one and Shift-click on the last one to select the entire range from first to last.

As far as I know these have been the methods for every version of Outlook that ever existed.

Tonny

Posted 2013-11-08T16:34:25.380

Reputation: 19 919

2This will only work for the current page of emails, not all emails in the folder. He's got 600 pages, so doing this process 600 times isn't really feasible. – Matthew Bonig – 2015-05-10T22:07:37.273

As MathewBonig said, when you select all, it does not give you the option to move. When you try to drag them after high lighting them all, all are deselected except for the first one. – ErocM – 2017-02-03T18:07:46.890