If you are using Gmail with Outlook, type All Mail in this window to select your Gmail’s archive folder (see screenshot). Step 1: Open Microsoft Outlook, select any message in the inbox and press the keyboard shortcut Cmd+Shift+M to move the selected email message into another Outlook folder. The tutorial is for Office 2016 but it should work with previous versions of Outlook on Mac OS X as well. Here’s a step-by-step guide that will help you emulate Gmail’s archiving functionality in your Microsoft Outlook. menu but that is no match to the simplistic option available in Gmail. You can obviously move email messages to the Archive folder through the Message > Move > Choose Folder. Microsoft has just launched a new version of Outlook with Office 2016 for Mac but there’s no built-in option to help you easily archive messages similar to what you have in Gmail.
While a thread is selected in Gmail, you can press the Archive button, or hit the “e” keyboard shortcut, and the selected thread is removed from your inbox but continues to exists in the “All Mails” folder. The Archive feature in Gmail comes handy when you would like to preserve an email conversation forever but at the same time move it out of your main inbox. Published in: Apple Mac - Gmail - Microsoft Outlook
