Outlook 2016 Intermediate/Advanced

Lesson – Customizing Views

Outlook 2016

W ORKING WITH C USTOM V IEWS  D ISCUSSION Outlook has several options to view your email and allows users to view messages in the form of conversations. It also provides many other viewing options to the users.

The new views are can be easily customized to suit your needs, in this lesson we will detail how you can customize views.

Customize a view in a folder to make it easier to work with the folder items. Customize the types of information and formatting displayed in a view can be customized using the Field , Group By , Sort , Filter , Other Settings , Automatic Formatting , and Format Columns buttons in the Customize View dialog box. Each button opens a dialog box where you can select the options you want to modify.

The options available in the Customize View dialog box change depending on the type of view you are modifying. For instance, when modifying a card view, the Group By and Format Columns buttons are not available and the options on the Other Settings dialog box differ from those available for a table view.

NOTE You can open the Advanced View Settings dialog box by selecting the View Settings icon in the Current View group.

M OVING A F IELD IN A V IEW  D ISCUSSION

Outlook provides several standard views to display the items in a folder. You can reorganize the information in a view by moving the fields and reordering them according to your needs. A field in a table view can easily be moved by dragging the column heading to the desired position.

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