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Create a separate folder for emails with attachments in Outlook

There’s a fairly straightforward a way to create a dedicated folder for emails with attachments. You can then quickly move all your emails with attachments to it and set up Outlook so that all future emails with attachments go directly to that folder.

Click the Folder tab at the top, then New Folder at the top left. Name it Attachments (or similar), select your
email account at the top, then click OK. The folder will now be added to your list of email folders in the left-hand panel (along with Inbox, Drafts, Sent Items and so on). Now click any email containing an attachment in your inbox. Click the Home tab, then the Rules dropdown menu (in the Move section). Next, click Create Rule, then Advanced Options at the bottom right. You’ll see a list of different email rules you can tick. Tick
the ‘which has an attachment’ rule, then click Next.

Now tick ‘move it to the specified folder’, then click the ‘specified’ link in the box below, select the Attachments folder you created (see screenshot right), click OK, then click Next twice. Now give this rule a name (such as Attachments Rule), tick both the boxes below ‘Run this rule now on messages already in ‘lnbox” and ‘Turn on this rule’, then click Finish. Now all your current emails that contain attachments will move from your inbox to your Attachments folder, and any new emails you receive that contain attachments will automatically appear within this folder.