Sharing Rules with Others

By default, Outlook 2007 stores server-side rules on the computer running Exchange Server and stores client-side rules on your local system. Regardless of where your message rules are stored, you can share them with others by exporting the rules to a file. You can then send the file as an e-mail attachment or place it on a network share (or a local share) to allow other users to access it. You can also export the rules to create a backup of them for safekeeping or in the event that you need to move your Outlook 2007 rules to a new computer, as explained in the next section.

Follow these steps to export your message rules to a file:

  1. In Outlook 2007, choose Tools, Rules And Alerts.

  2. In the Rules And Alerts dialog box, click Options.

  3. In the Options dialog box, shown in Figure 11-11, click Export Rules, and then select a path for the file in the resulting Save Exported Rules As dialog box (a standard file save dialog box).

    Use the Options dialog box to import and export rules.

    Figure 11-11. Use the Options dialog box to import and export rules.

  4. To save the rules using Microsoft Outlook 2002, Outlook 2000, or Outlook 98 format, select the appropriate format in the Save As Type drop-down list. Otherwise, leave the selection at Rules Wizard Rules to save for Outlook 2007.

  5. Click Save.

You can export your rules in any of four formats, depending on the version of Microsoft Outlook used by the people with whom you want to share your rules. If you need to share with various users, export using the earliest version of Microsoft Outlook. Later versions will be able to import the rules because they are forward-compatible.

Note

If you are sharing rules with someone else, at this point, you have a rules file that you can send to the other person. The following section explains how to restore rules, which is the process the other person would use to import your rules.

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