Today's tip deals with keeping your email inbox cleaned out. (You can find other helpful email hints on our intranet page at http://intranet.fcps.net/EdTechnology/email.asp 

Have you received a message from the System Administrator telling you that your inbox has exceeded it's size limit? If so there are a couple of quick easy ways to make more room.

First make sure that you don't have any messages with really large attachments. (Hint: you can sort messages by size just by clicking on the size heading in your inbox.)

Check the Sent Items folder. Highlight and delete any items in there that you don't need.

• You may highlight several things at once, by clicking on the first item, holding the shift key down and then clicking on the last item. That will highlight everything in between.
• You may highlight several things (but not everything) by holding the Ctrl key down while you click. This allows you to leave a few items unselected.

Now that you've deleted the Sent Items, you will need to empty your Deleted Items folder before things are freed up. You can do this by Right-Clicking on the Deleted Items folder and choosing Empty Deleted Items.

If you have lots of messages that you want to keep, but they are taking up too much room, you can create personal folders for yourself that will allow you to save messages on your hard drive so that they won't take up room on the server. To learn how to do this, visit my web page at http://teach.fcps.net/trt2/Documents/tech_tip_14.htm 

(Thanks to Kim Overstreet for these great tips!)