How to archive emails by year/month/date in Outlook?

For example I need to archive emails received in May, I will show you the detailed steps to archive by the specified month/date/year in Outlook.

1. In the "Mail" view, type the search criteria received: May in the "Instant Search" box, and then specify the search scope in the "Scope" group on the "Search" tab. See screenshot:

Notes: (1) received: May means search emails received in May, you can change the May to other month name, such as Jan, Feb, etc.
(2) received: May means search emails received in May of any years. If you need to narrow the search scope and search emails in May of a certain year, such as 2016, you can change the search criteria to received: 2016/5/1..2016/5/31.
(3) For searching emails by a certain year, says 2015, please change the search criteria to received: 2015/1/1..2015/12/31.
(4) For searching emails by a certain date, says 2016/5/1, please change the search criteria to received: 2016/5/1.

2. Now all emails received in the specified month are found out in the mail list. Please select all search results, right click and select "Move" > "Other Folder". See screenshot:
Note: You can select all emails in the mail list with selecting any email in the mail list and pressing "Ctrl" + "A" keys.

3. In the Move Items dialog box, please click the "New" button. See screenshot below:

4. In the Create New Folder dialog box, please type a name ("May" in my case) for the new folder in the "Name" box, select an email account in the "Select where to place the folder" list box, and click the "OK" buttons to close both dialog boxes.

5. Now all search results are moved to the new Folder "May". Go ahead to click "File" > "Info" > "Tools" > "Clean Up Older Items" (or "File" > "Info" > "Cleanup Tools" > "Archive"). See screenshot:

6. In the Archive dialog box, please do as below screenshot shown:
(1) Check the "Archive this folder and all subfolders" option;
(2) Click to select the new folder "May" in the below list box;
(3) Type "Tomorrow" in the "Archive Items older than" box;
(4) Click the "Browse" button to specify file name and saving folder for the archive file;
(5) Click the "OK" button.

7. In the popping out Microsoft Outlook dialog box, please click the "Yes" button.

So far emails have been archived by the specified month (or year, date) already.

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