KMail has a really useful feature: you can define a series of rules which are only run when you press a keyboard shortcut, and then only on the highlighted messages. This allows me to read a message as it comes into the inbox, and then file it away with one key press.

How can I replicate this in Outlook? Possibly some VBA script triggered by a key press that runs all rules against all messages currently selected?

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How big is your folder? You can Run rules manually, but that applies to the whole folder, but I imagine that this could be really slow if your folder has a large number of messages.

That link describes using 'Manage Rules & Alerts' in the File tab to 'Run Rules Now'.

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Unfortunately, there is no way to run Outlook rules on selected messages. Only on folders. :-( Even using Outlook Object Model in VBA.

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