Quickly deleting e-mails in Messaging
Submitted Tuesday, March 18, 2008
If you have accumulated a high number of e-mails in your Inbox and want to get rid of them quickly, here are a few tips to expedite the process:
Touch screen devices
To select a large number of e-mails for deletion (instead of having to delete them one at a time):
- Tap and hold the stylus on the desired e-mail and drag up or down to select multiple e-mails. Tap and hold again on the highlighted e-mails and select Delete from the pop-up menu.
- If your device has a QWERTY keyboard with a Shift key, hold it down and press the Up or Down arrow keys to select multiple e-mails.
- To mass-select all of your e-mails, open the soft keyboard and tap Ctl and then A.
Non-touch screen devices
Smartphones without touch screens do not have the ability to select multiple e-mails. If you have a Windows Mobile 6 device, however, here is one way to speed up deletion:
- In your Messaging Inbox, go to Menu >Tools >Options >Other and unselect the “Warn when deleting messages in the message list” option. This way, it will only take one key press (the Delete soft key) to delete an e-mail.
Disabling the deletion warning message in WM 6 smartphones will quicken e-mail deletion.
Based on a SmartphoneMag.com blog post by Werner “Menneisyys†Ruotsalainen
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