Customizing Views in OL2003 across a "Personal Folders" folder set

4 May 2005 5:48 PM

groupslrn

My company has migrated to Outlook 2003 and I would like to make some
changes to the new Default Views.

I have read the tips at outlook-tips.net and gone through this group in
some detail but have not been able to accomplish my goals

I have a bunch of folders saved on my local drive under "Personal
Folders" which is on the same tree level as the main mailbox. I would
like to
1) Disable Grouping
2) Disable the Reading Pane

For 1) I tried View->Define Views->... per outlook-tips.net but it did
not work across the subfolders in the Personal Folders directory. I
also tried disabling the Group view by View->Arrange By-> uncheck Show
in Groups folder by folder. Painful and it didn't "Stick"

Similarly for 2), I can't see a clear path to disabling the Reading
Pane across a large batch of folders.

I'm sure I'm doing several things incorrectly but believe I've come
across my ignorance the hard way. Suggestions gratefully appreciated.

--- Ravi

4 May 2005 7:45 PM

Brian Tillman

groups***@rettacs.org <groups***@rettacs.org> wrote:

> For 1) I tried View->Define Views->... per outlook-tips.net but it did
> not work across the subfolders in the Personal Folders directory.

Did you remove all your custom views first, as described in the article
there?

--
Brian Tillman

4 May 2005 8:57 PM

groupslrn

Brian Tillman wrote:

> groups***@rettacs.org <groups***@rettacs.org> wrote:
>
> > For 1) I tried View->Define Views->... per outlook-tips.net but it
did
> > not work across the subfolders in the Personal Folders directory.
>
> Did you remove all your custom views first, as described in the
article
> there?

Yes. Here are the steps I followed:

>From the command line: outlook /cleanviews

{Outlook Starts}

>From the Advanced Toolbar, select "Define Views"
Select Messages
Select Modify

Select Group By --> Unselect "Automatically Group ..." --> OK
Select Other Settings --> Unselect "Show Items in Groups", select "No
Auto Preview," select "Reading Pane Off"
Ok --> Ok --> Apply View

Only the highlighted subfolder under Personal Folders changes. All the
others remain as they were.

--- Ravi

9 May 2005 3:16 PM

groupslrn

Refreshing this topic in hopes there are some further ideas on why
Define Views is not (apparently) working across a set of email folders
in Outlook 2003.

groups***@rettacs.org wrote:
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> Brian Tillman wrote:
> > groups***@rettacs.org <groups***@rettacs.org> wrote:
> >
> > > For 1) I tried View->Define Views->... per outlook-tips.net but
it
> did
> > > not work across the subfolders in the Personal Folders directory.
> >
> > Did you remove all your custom views first, as described in the
> article
> > there?
>
> Yes. Here are the steps I followed:
>
> >From the command line: outlook /cleanviews
>
> {Outlook Starts}
>
> >From the Advanced Toolbar, select "Define Views"
> Select Messages
> Select Modify
> Select Group By --> Unselect "Automatically Group ..." --> OK
> Select Other Settings --> Unselect "Show Items in Groups", select
"No
> Auto Preview," select "Reading Pane Off"
> Ok --> Ok --> Apply View
>
> Only the highlighted subfolder under Personal Folders changes. All
the
> others remain as they were.
>
> --- Ravi