Setting Up an Email Forwarding Rule

Occasionally, you may be out of the office and needing your email messages to be forwarded to another employee to cover them in your absence.

In Outlook, go to File and click on the Manage Rules and Alerts icon

Select New Rule…

Select Start from a blank rule and Apply rule on messages I receive

Check the Sent Only to Me option

Check the Forward to people or public group option and click on the people or public group link in Step 2:

Select the group or user name and OK

If there are any exceptions to your rule you can specify them here:

Give your new rule a name and indicate if you want it turned on and FINISH and Apply

Your rules are listed, and you can enable or disable with a check mark