How do you display your mail folders?

Posted on November 30, 2007
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Computer Tips, Tricks, Tweaks and Tutorials - How do you display your mail folders?

The next Office Tip and Trick is for MS Outlook. It’s a small but handy tip for displaying your mailbox items in the way that you prefer. Microsoft Outlook has two options for displaying them. In blue "()" and in green "[]".

The Blue parenthesis "()" are for displaying the number of unread messages.

And the green brackets "[]" are for displaying the total number of messages in your inbox.

Computer Tips, Tricks, Tweaks and Tutorials - How do you display your mail folders? On this first picture you see a small portion of my personal folders. As you can see I have one draft e-mail that I need to finish and send out and I have for one of my e-mail accounts one new e-mail that I didn’t read yet. These are my standard settings.

If you want to change the display value for your Outlook mail folders you’ll need to:

Select the mail folder.
Right Click
Select properties
And now the general tab should be opened.
Now select which value you want to have displayed: “show number of unread items” or “show total number of items”.

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And click on apply and OK

And you are done.

Computer Tips, Tricks, Tweaks and Tutorials - How do you display your mail folders? Once you’ve changed it could look like this but it depends what your preferences are. I prefer my mailboxes like the first picture but I can image that you do it in another way. If you have e-mails that you need to follow up and you don’t want to flag your items then it might be handy to have a folder named “follow up” where you place all the mails that you need to follow up.

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