Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2007 Inside Out

Using and Managing Folders

When you perform an action in Outlook 2007, you do so inside a folder. Outlook 2007 provides a handful of actions that you can perform with folders to change their behavior, location, appearance, and so on, as described in the following sections.

Using a Folder

When you’re ready to work with information in Outlook 2007, you first go to the folder in which that information is stored. For example, to read a new e-mail message downloaded to your Inbox folder, you must open the Inbox folder and then select the message to read. To open a folder, click its button in the Navigation Pane or click the folder name in the Folder List.

When you open the folder, its contents are displayed in the main Outlook 2007 window. To see the ...