Forward Multiple Emails Individually in Outlook

Email & Messaging

Updated March 25, 2019

If you want to forward a bunch of emails in Outlook, you could highlight them and send them as attachments to a new message. However, with a small workaround, you can forward several emails as individual messages quickly in Outlook.

Instructions in this article apply to Outlook 2019, Outlook 2016, Outlook 2013, Outlook 2010, and Outlook for Office 365.

How to Forward Multiple Emails Individually in Outlook

When you want to forward several emails to one or more of your contacts, copy the recipients to a special folder and have an Outlook rule forward them individually and automatically.

Create a new folder in Outlook. Go to the Folder tab, select New Folder, and enter a name for the folder.
Right-click and drag each message you want to forward to the new folder, release the mouse, then select Copy.
Open the new folder.
Go to the Home tab and, in the Move group, select Rules.
Select Create Rule.
Select Advanced Options.
Clear any selected check boxes, then select Next.
In the warning dialog box, select Yes.
In the Step1 section, select either forward it to people or public group or forward it to people or distribution list.

As an alternative, select forward it to people or public group as an attachment (or forward it to people or distribution list as an attachment) to forward the message as an attachment and not as inline text.
In the Step 2 section, select either people or public group or people or distribution list.
Double-click the desired contact or list from your address book. Or, in the To text box, type the email address that will receive the forwarded messages.
Select OK.
Select Next.
Select Next again.
Clear the Turn on this rule check box.
Select Finish.