Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Customizing your Inbox in Outlook 2013



The Outlook Inbox is the primary place
from where you access all your emails. Often when the amount of emails landing into your mailbox is high, you would consider the idea of customizing the Inbox in a manner that it becomes easy for you to manage the emails. With Outlook 2013 you can hope to make subtle changes that can help you elevate the way your emails are organized and showcased in the Inbox.


Changing Views

One of the easiest ways to customize how emails appear in your Inbox involves the use of preset views that Outlook provides. Just go to the View tab and click on Change View and select any of options available. For example you can choose to change the amount of content below the header that is visible in the emails. Outlook gives you the option to completely turn off previews or change the settings to showcase freshly received emails only.


Customizing Views

The existing views can be easily customized to your taste by changing the details in View settings. You can consider shifting the order of emails received or merge or add columns as per your need. Next you can explore the idea of sorting the messages by subject and other parameters.


Tweak the Reading Pane

You can use the flexible layout choices provided by Outlook to tweak the reading pane to your liking. Further the folder pane can be modified to gel with your aesthetic needs.


Grouping Messages

Microsoft it seems is borrowing ideas from Gmail and introducing the same under a slightly different moniker in Outlook. Now it allows you to group all messages of a specific interaction together, just like Gmail. Just choose the Show As Conversations option and it stitches up the messages and reduces the clutter in your Inbox.


Working with email displays

Using Conditional formatting you can choose to change the way certain emails are displayed. For example you can set a rule to display emails that contain the subject line Meeting to be displayed in Red color and with a larger font. There are countless options present in Outlook to alter the presentation of the emails and if you wish you can apply the changes to a specific folder only.


A PST error can ruin your day

The Outlook application has knack of throwing inane error messages that can take the living daylights out of you. However PST corruption can undoubtedly be considered as the most potent issue that you will experience while using the Outlook application. It can compromise all your emails and unless you take recourse to a powerful pst repair tool, your data may remain inaccessible. The DataNumen Outlook Repair program is possibly the best tool that you can come across to negotiate PST errors and it has a near perfect success rate. Whether you are looking to dig up the data from corrupted PST files residing on a virtual machine drive or a flash disk, this versatile tool can complete the onerous task without breaking a sweat.


Author Introduction:

Alan Chen is President & Chairman of DataNumen, Inc., which is the world leader in data recovery technologies, including sql recovery and outlook repair software products. For more information visit http://www.datanumen.com/

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.