| Creating a personal folder allows you to archive your folders to your hard drive and remove them from your e-mail server. You can export your mail items to a personal folder which will allow you to backup old messages for safe keeping, or store personal and confidential e-mail items in your personal folder to prevent others from seeing your private e- mails . Add a Personal Folder -
| | In Outlook, click the File menu, and then point to New. | -
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Choose your type of data storage, and then click OK. The new personal folders hold more data in Outlook's unicode-formatted files. The old version (97-2002) uses a non-unicode-formatted files which are compatible with the older versions of Outlook. -
| | Type in the name of your personal folder and the location on your system, and then click OK. | -
| | Type a name for your personal folder. | -
| | Select an encryption option. | -
| | Type a password of your choice, and then type the same password again to confirm you password. | -
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