Old Rules and Alerts disappeared after setting up new account in Outlook 2021

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I'm using Outlook as part of Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2021 on Windows 11.

 

Previously, I'd saved a bunch of rules for controlling spam and managing myriad emails. These rules were always local to my computer (or I think they were).

 

And the previous accounts were all setup as POP/SMTP type to a service provider--Xfinity.com in this case.

Recently, I added a new account to Outlook which was to a Microsoft Exchange server--logging in via an OWA interface.

 

To my surprise and dread, when I went to modify an existing rule, the entire list of rules were no longer there.

 

It looks like you can only have one set of rules active for an account and it's either server or client based rules. So I'm assuming that my rules and alerts were reset to the default for my account on the server.

 

I don't plan to use the server based rules. Thus, my question is how do I restore those (hopefully, still existing) client rules? Thanks.

 

So my question 

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