2 Effective Methods to Batch Delete All Outlook Rules Performing a Specific Action

If you need to batch delete all Outlook rules that perform a specific action, such as “Move”, “Copy” or “Flag”, you can read this article. Here we will take “Move” action as an example to introduce you 2 quick methods.

At times, you may want to delete all rules performing a specific action in Outlook. For instance, you’ve rebuilt folder structures in your mailboxes. Thus, you intend to re-classify and archive emails to different folders. In this case, you may want to batch delete all rules performing the “Move” action. Looking at this, here we will introduce 2 ways. The first one is appropriate to one mailbox. But if you want to process all mailboxes in your Outlook, you’d better use the following Method 2.
Method 1: Batch Delete in One Mailbox

— To begin with, click “File”.
— Then, in the “File” menu, click “Manage Rules & Alerts” button.
— In the next “Rules and Alerts” dialog box, you can see the “Actions” column in rule list. And the icon of “Move” action is .
— Now, press “Ctrl” key and meanwhile select the rules whose action icon is one by one.
— After selecting rules, click “Delete” button above the rule list.

Method 2: Batch Delete in All Mailboxes

— For a start, launch Outlook VBA editor according to “How to Run VBA Code in Your Outlook”.
— Next, copy the following VBA code into a blank module.

Sub DeleteAllMoveRules()
Dim objStores As Outlook.Stores
Dim objStore As Outlook.Store
Dim objRules As Outlook.rules

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