"Aamir" wrote in message
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Need to setup Outlook to do following:
--if an e-mail comes in with the subject header having, say a project number
1357YY , outlook sends it right away to folder named 1357YY IN
--If a general message comes in, it sends it to a folder named GENERAL IN
--Similarly for sent messages 1357YY SENT and GENERAL SENT
--If a message comes in with 1357YY somewhere in the text, not necessarily
in the subject, would outlook still send it to 1357YY IN

Open Help and enter "create a rule". Read.

one more can the program use colors e.g. we make a rule that message with
1357YY gets a red color and goes into folder called RED IN, with project
97633 into green, ---?

See this: http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/coloremail.htm
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]