Outlook 2000 in a Nutshell

Name

Mail → View Menu

Synopsis

The View menu contains commands for changing how mail folder content is displayed. Figure 6-22 shows Mail’s View menu.

Figure 6-22. The Mail View menu

Message views display items differently according to read, reply, and forward status. New (unread) messages are formatted bold on their description line and the item icon shows a sealed envelope. In addition, the folder they are contained in also displays bold in the Folder List pane, along with a count of how many unread items there are. Read items are depicted by an opened envelope regardless of their reply/forward status.

Some of the views described in this section are sorted, others are filtered, and some are a combination of the two. The distinction is that sorted views show all the items in a given folder ordered in selectable ways, while filtered views show only a predefined subset of those items. It is possible to have a view sorted only, filtered only, or both filtered and sorted.

You may at some point suddenly panic because you are unable to find an item that simply must be in the folder you are viewing. It is possible you are viewing the folder through a filter that is excluding the missing item. Before you go off in a frantic search for your “lost” data, select View → Current View → Messages. This is the default setting, and in effect clears all filters and returns the view to the default sort ...