If you use outlook to manage your email then today is rhetorical question day. Here we go: 1. Is your outlook slow? 2. Are you having problems finding your email? 3. Do you have too many emails? 4. Do you want to just erase all of those messages because it's cluttered but just can't stand the thought of possibly needing one of those emails another day!?!?!? TIME TO ARCHIVE! Let's pretend that you print every email and reply you have ever sent or received, you tree killer you, now you have a huge stack of email cluttering your space. It slows you down, increases your workload because you can't find that forward your Aunt Jemima sent you 4 years ago. You need to get organized. What do you do? Get a filing drawer, archive them and then shut the drawer that's what. Let's see how to do this in the digital world. Outlook (not outlook express) stores all of your email in a file called a PST file. Chances are that your pst file is gianormous because you have never archived it. When the it file gets too big it makes outlook preform slowly when you open it, when you open a new message, send a message, recieve a messege etc. It also makes your outlook more suseptable to crashing unexpectedly. Scary stuff. In order to remedy this we are going to make a new PST file to act like your filing drawer. We'll open the drawer, file your old stuff away, and then close the drawer making your email faster and better organized. The first step will most likely be the toughest but is well worth it. Get yourself in the mood, grab a bottle of red wine and throw in your best grunge mix CD because we are going to clean house. Go through your mail folders and get rid of anything you will never need again. I know some of you are pathological horders when it comes to your email but just press that delete button. If you have to think about it any longer than a couple seconds, press delete. Now for the next step...actually I'm so tired from cleaning out my PST folder I'm just going to let microsoft take it from here. http://office.microsoft.com/training/Training.aspx?AssetID=RP010265801033&CTT=6&Origin=RC010265551033 And one more thing, when you are done don't forget to shut yoru drawer: right click on the PST file you just created and click close. To reopen later go up to file -> open -> PST Have fun!