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

Comment from kjd on 2008-08-13

2008-08-13T23:30:51Z

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.

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Comment from pinky and the brain on 2008-07-25

2008-07-25T16:09:51Z

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?

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Comment from dave on 2008-06-16

2008-06-16T10:39:31Z

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

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Comment from David on 2008-05-28

2008-05-28T21:35:36Z

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.

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Comment from slim jim on 2008-05-14

2008-05-14T18:48:37Z

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 :-))

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Comment from Chuck Furgason on 2007-10-15

2007-10-15T23:29:13Z

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?

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Comment from reny on 2007-09-26

2007-09-26T23:21:31Z

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 .

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Comment from Jack on 2007-09-26

2007-09-26T11:36:00Z

I have found a way to do away with the Favorites Pane if anyone is interested. Click on the toolbar, usually the one with Outlook Today Icon, Back, Reading Pane Icon, etc., and then Customize. Choose the Web Toolbar to customize, add the Folder List Button to that toolbar mentioned above. When I click that icon off/on the Favorites Pane disappears. Then to get it back I go the GO menu in the main menus at the top of Outlook and then choose Mail. The favorites pane reappears, so there's choice. Anyone find this works? Works for me.

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Comment from anita on 2007-09-25

2007-09-25T15:44:38Z

Go to the bottom left pane where the icons are, click on the pane bar to expand or make it wider so that you can see all of your icons. Then click on Folder List and your favorites should go away.

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Comment from Maynard on 2007-05-31

2007-05-31T12:21:10Z

i want to remove the Search Folder. I followed the /cleanfinders switch but when i restart Outlook, Search Folders are still there. They may be Inactive but they still affect my Outlook.

My issue why i want Search Folder to be DISABLED is its affecting my typing. When i type my mail, it takes 5 seconds or longer for the text to appear. But if i delete the 3 Search Folders, my typing is restored. Obviously, the indexing of the Search Folders slows down outlook.

Is there a way to permanently DISABLE Search Folder in MS Outlook?

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Comment from Sudhir on 2007-03-15

2007-03-15T15:45:32Z

Gordon, How do you restore the favorites folder..specificallly the 'unread mail' folder? I can't seem to find the Unread Mails folder in the Search Folder either.

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Comment from Soulcatcher on 2007-03-01

2007-03-02T03:13:26Z

To remove farovrite folder just click on FOLDER LIST then use from there why use short cut at bottom for went everything u need is in folder list

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Comment from Dan on 2007-02-11

2007-02-11T22:26:30Z

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

p.s. You have "hear" instead of "near" in the "Use the Google search box" item of the "Before commenting" section below the Comments: box.

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Comment from Julie on 2006-08-13

2006-08-13T17:41:50Z

Gordon, in Mail view, scroll down to the bottom of the list where you'll find "Search Folders". The 'Unread Mail' search is in here, just drag it up to the Favorites folder.

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Comment from Gordon on 2006-08-08

2006-08-09T01:39:19Z

How do you restore the favorites folder..specificallly the 'unread mail' folder?

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Comment from J Atwell on 2006-06-30

2006-06-30T14:48:54Z

I have been running Office 2007 Beta 2 for several weeks now and they have not addressed this so far. I too find it confusing for my users and have tried to disable it. You can also right click on the shortcuts --> choose Navigation Pane Options and uncheck all of the shortcuts you don't want, including all of them. Unchecking all of them does not free up this real estate, but minimize this space as Leo mentions in the article and you should be good to go. This also allows you to reorder the icons if you don't like the order they are in.

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Comment from Eli Coten on 2006-06-24

2006-06-25T03:39:28Z

If you want to know what happens in the next version of Outlook, then download the beta and install it to a test machine. I'm sure you are aware that Microsoft have made the Office 2007 beta publicly available for anyone to download, so try and - and answer your question in this artice.

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