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Whenever you receive a new email in your Outlook Inbox, a small notification alert will pop up at the bottom right of your Desktop. However, if you’ve created a ‘rule’ to automatically move, for example, emails from a specific contact or emails that contain certain key words into a subfolder within your Inbox, then you won’t be alerted to these.

If you want to receive alerts for all your emails, you need to create a new rule for this. To do this, first click the File tab at the top left, then the Manage Rules & Alerts button at the bottom. Click New Rule at the top left to see the Rules Wizard window. Next click ‘Apply rule on messages I receive’ then click Next and Yes. Finally, scroll to the bottom, tick ‘display a Desktop Alert’, then click Finish and OK.