Sometimes you would like to know where you have an email located in Microsoft Outlook. If you have a lot of folders, this can be a common problem. Fortunately, you can find the folder location for any email using these steps.
- Open Outlook and search for the message using the quick search box located toward the upper-right portion of the window. When searching, be sure that “All Outlook Items” is selected in the drop-down box.
- Once you press “Enter” to submit your search, there should be an “In Folder” field that will tell you which folder the email is located in.
If you do not have this field perform these steps:
- Select the “View” tab.
- Select “Add Columns” or ⋯ > “Add Columns” depending on your view.
- From the “Select available columns from:” drop-down menu, select “All Mail fields“.
- Select “In Folder” then select “Add” to add it. If you store email locally in a PST file, also check and add “Outlook Data File“.
I hope this post has helped you sort out how to find email folder locations in Outlook. Need more help? Drop me a comment below.
Ralph says
Unfortunately – doesn’t help as much as I hoped. The email is in “2015” … but where is the folder “2015”? That question seems like it would be easy to answer but it seems that Outlook lacks the ability to search for a folder by name.