One of the new features in Outlook 2010 that I absolutely love is the ability to create “Quick Steps.” At home, I’ve got several email accounts that download into Outlook. From those separate inboxes, I file them into folders kept completely offline. A problem that I run into is that when using the preview pane, the email isn’t marked as read (intentionally) unless I click off and back onto it. When I click-drag the email to a folder to file it, it keeps its unread status unless, once again, I click off and on. This is not a very efficient way for me to work and Quick Steps fix that.
When you create a new Quick Step, you can define a set of actions that this one button performs.
As can be seen below, the following Quick Step will ask you which folder to move your email to and mark it as read.
You can create a shortcut and tooltips for these and add as many actions as you would like. Very helpful!