Put more useful navigation options on the Outlook screen.
The default Outlook Navigation pane isn’t meant for you, it’s intended for absolute beginners to the program and to reduce the number of support calls. Once you’ve started to use Outlook, it’s time to change the way it looks to suit you, not some corporate agenda from Microsoft.
The Outlook Favorites is a nice idea and may work for some people. Others prefer to have a single list of folders rather than switch between the full folder list and a partial favorites list, it depends on how you use Outlook and how many folders you access.
If you have limited Outlook use then making your Outlook folders ‘Favorites’ makes sense, but most people need more than that.
To see the full folder list, choose ‘Folder List’ from the navigation buttons at the bottom. Most likely it’ll be in the extension menu of the buttons; click on the wedge at right to see the rest of the options.
Now you have a single list of Outlook folders. Outlook 2010 (right of image below) has a different order for folders with them grouped together in a somewhat logical fashion. For Outlook 2007 (left) and earlier the folders were in alphabetical order.
The full folder list takes up less screen space and lets you quickly move between Outlook folders.
