How do I remove Microsoft Outlook's Favorite Folders pane?

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Drag up the lists on your left pane of outlook and click on Folder List .You wont be able to see the favourite folder anymore .

I was trying to find out how to show the Favorites Folder in Outlook and had to work backwards to find the answer. Why don't you post an answer for how to "Show Favorite Folder" when it's missing?

Thank you thank you thank you thank you, especially for the writeup on removing that *&#@^$&@#*^$$# annoying "Favorite Folders". I was about to set things right, with the help of a sledge hammer, but your article saved some aggravation :-))

Leo, how do you restore the favorites folder..specificallly the 'unread mail' folder? I can't seem to find the Unread Mail folder in the Search Folder.

That was totally useful. I've been trying to work out how to do this all day. Thanks a bunch.

The problem I have is that I lose more space looking at folders than I do seeing favorites in the email. In the email view, I don't see the following foders: Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, Journal, etc. By adding all of those in the listing, I'm losing much more space than I'm gaining... Any other ideas out there?

Go to the View menu and select Navigation Pane. It has an option to turn favorites off. (If the option isn't there, click on the "mail" icon first.) Thanks for this information, Leo. I lost the favorites folder and was looking for it. MS Help was useless. It didn't tell me the option wouldn't appear if you hadn't selected the Mail icon.

Somehow a calendar ended up in my Favorite Folders pane in MS Outlook 2003. How do I remove it? Right-clicking only shows option to remove entire calendar from Outlook; not an option I would like to see happen.

Go to Go > put a check mark beside "Folder List"
Done...

Hi Leo

I am using Microsoft OUtlook 2007 and I use the Favourite Folders pane which I have been happy with.

However, recently, I have wanted to remove folders from the favourite folder pane (although I do not want to delete them entirely). I right click the said folders and choose 'remove from favourite folders' and they are gone.

HOWEVER, when I start outlook again, the removed folders are BACK!!!!!

Can you help?
Many thanks

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