Selecting Multiple Emails for Bulk Deleting, Forwarding or Moving

Let’s face it. We don’t need to keep most of our emails – we almost never revisit them so they sit there and accumulate. This is how to delete (or forward or move) more than one at a time:

Outlook Express, Outlook, Thunderbird

Pictures from Outlook Express

Go to your inbox or the folder you want to select from.

Click to select the first one you want to select

Find the last one you want to select, hold the “Shift” key and then click it.

All emails between the emails will also be selected.

To deselect emails in between, hold the “Ctrl” before clicking emails you want to deselect.

To select other emails that are not in between, hold the “Ctrl” before clicking emails you want to select additionally.

At this point, you can simply press the “Delete” button to delete them all, “Forward” to forward them all or right-click one of the selected ones and click “Move to folder…” to move…

Tags: bulk, email, forward, howto, many, multiple, outlook express, reply, thunderbird, tutorial

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