Fareed wrote:

I have Office 2003, validated by MS, in Outlook I want to set up
folders so the recieved mail is sent directly to certain folders, but
for the life of me I cannot find "rules and alerts" in th TOOLS menu.

Are you using Friendly menus? If so, click or hover over the down arrow at
the bottom of the menu. Otherwise, just click the Rules and Alerts icon
that's on the Advanced toolbar.
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Brian Tillman