Using the Folder List in VB.NET

Generate QR in VB.NET Using the Folder List

When you need to switch between folders, you ll probably use the Navigation Pane most of the time. But the Navigation Pane doesn t include shortcuts to all your folders by default, and adding those shortcuts can clutter the pane, especially if you have multiple data stores. For tunately, Outlook provides another quick way to navigate your folders: the folder list. Click the Folder List button in the Navigation Pane to display the folder list, as shown in Figure 3-26. In the list, click the folder you want to open. Outlook hides the folder list again after you select the folder.

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The status bar appears at the bottom of the Outlook window (see Figure 3-27) and presents information about the current folder and selected items, such as the number of items in the folder. It can also include other status information, such as the progress of folder synchroni zation. If you don t need the information in the status bar, you can turn it off to gain a little more space for the current folder s display. To turn the status bar on or off, choose View, Sta tus Bar.

Figure 3-27. The status bar provides useful information, such as the number of items in the selected folder.

In earlier sections of this chapter, you read about the Reading Pane, which allows you to preview Outlook items without opening them. For example, you can preview an e-mail message in the Reading Pane simply by clicking the message header. To turn the Reading Pane on or off, choose View, Reading Pane, then choose Right, Bottom, or Off. You can also click the Reading Pane button on the Advanced toolbar to turn the pane on or off.

Working in and Configuring Outlook To some degree, the way the Reading Pane functions depends on how you configure it. For example, you can set up the Reading Pane to mark messages as read after they ve been previewed for a specified length of time. To configure the Reading Pane, choose Tools, Options, click the Other tab, and click Reading Pane. Select options based on the following list:

Select this option to have messages marked as read when they ve been previewed for the time specified by the fol lowing option. Specify the number of seconds a mes sage must be displayed in the Reading Pane before it is marked as read. Select this option to have the message in the Reading Pane marked as read when you select another message.

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Selecting this option allows you to use the Spacebar to move through your list of messages to preview them. Press Shift+Spacebar to move up the list. You also can use the up and down arrow keys to move up and down the message list.

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The Reading Pane in Outlook 2003 offers some new functionality, which includes the following:

attachment to open it or right-click the attachment and choose other tasks from the shortcut menu (such as saving the attachment).

AutoPreview, which is available in the Inbox, Notes, and Tasks folders, allows you to preview Outlook items without opening the Reading Pane. For example, with AutoPreview turned on in the Inbox folder, the first three lines of each message appear under the message header. To turn AutoPreview on or off for the current folder, choose View, AutoPreview. The AutoPre view state (on or off) is saved on a folder-by-folder basis, so you can have AutoPreview turned on for the Inbox and turned off for Notes and Tasks.