Outlook 2000 in a Nutshell

Name

Journal’s Context Menus

Synopsis

Context menus are powerful tools for navigating or manipulating items in any Outlook component. This is especially true in Journal because Journal entries usually contain attachments or links to other items. Context menus allow you to quickly access and view these attachments directly, without opening the Journal item.

Note

Some Journal views (particularly Table view with many entries) make it difficult to find the “right” space to click on to open the desired context menu. If this happens to you, scroll to the bottom of the open view and click on the very last row or white space available.

Right-clicking on an empty area of a timeline view brings up the context menu shown in Figure 11-16 (left). The features offered here are selected from the most useful commands from View menu and submenus. Quick and simple view navigation and customization is the order of the day. The context menu shown in Figure 11-16 (right) is displayed when your view is a table format.

Figure 11-16. The context menu displayed for a timeline view (left) and a Table view (right)

Figure 11-17 (left) shows the context menu displayed when you right-click a single item in any Journal view. Open and Open Journal Entry are functionally equivalent. Open Item Referred To opens the journal entry itself (identical, then, to Open and Open Journal Entry) if the item contains no associated ...