In this short guide we will cover the following features:
- Resetting Your Outlook View
- Saving A Personalised View in Outlook
Resetting Your Outlook View
If your view settings have changed, it’s sometimes easier to start again.
Open Microsoft Outlook on your computer. Once the application has launched, you should see the Inbox view by default.
At the top of the screen, click ‘View’ from the ribbon of tabs.
From within the ‘View’ menu you will see the option to “Reset View”. Click then choose ‘Yes’ to confirm you want to reset the view.
There you have it, in a few simple steps you have “Reset” the layout of the view that is currently selected for viewing your outlook emails.
Saving a Personalised View In Outlook
Similar to ‘Resetting’ the view in Outlook, there is also an option to ‘Save Current View As a New View’ which is a useful feature to ensure you can always revert to a view that you have created and become familiar with, should you ever need this.
To do this, firstly ensure you are happy with the current view that you have in Outlook and then navigate to the ‘View’ tab again.
Choose ‘Change View’ (1) and the option will expand with some additional settings to choose from. Next you need to click ‘Save Current View As a New View’ (2).
Once you have clicked on this option, a dialog box will appear:
Choose a custom name for this view ‘Macnamara View’ in this example. Finally, choose 1 of the 3 options for where the view can be used. In this example we are choosing ‘All Mail and Post Folders’.
That’s it, all done! If you look in the ‘View > Change View’ menu you should see your newly created view which you can use whenever you need.
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