Throughout the previous lessons, we’ve touched on using views to sort items, to print, and to find items you need. We’re going to talk a bit more now about using views.

There are four main ways you can change your view in Outlook.

-       Circled in blue is the navigation pane where you can pick from a list. (This is only on by default in the notes, tasks, contacts, and journal folders.)

-       Circled in red is the Views menu which has lots of different choices.

-       Circled in green is a column header. Just click on this field to change how your items are listed. (With the example above, click on Created to sort your items from newest to oldest. Click the Created field again to reverse the order, from oldest to newest.)

-       Hidden behind the Views menu are icons on the standard toolbar. These allow you to switch from large icons, to small icons, to a list view just by clicking on the icon. We’re not going to talk about these options in depth because they are only shown on the calendar, contacts, tasks, and journal toolbars, and the buttons are self-explanatory.

Let’s take a look at these different ways of viewing Outlook.