What’s new in the Outlook Navigation Pane

re: What’s new in the Outlook Navigation Pane

jschlosser — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 16:31:06 GMT

Is there a patch out to let us have a white background in the navigation pane? I can't read this.

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spinsandiego@yahoo.com — Fri, 18 May 2012 22:29:34 GMT

Outlook 2010 is just horrible! Micosoft, please allow the options we had with prior versions. You went backwards with this one.

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ljk — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:32:59 GMT

I got here because I am forced to use Office 2010 at work and I want to change the look and feel back to about 2003.

In particular, I hate ribbons, bring back menus and also I want to change the background colour of the navigation pane to white. I know this may sound boring and old fashioned, but maybe I am just being boring in that i find black on white easier to read.

Recently I powered up an old Windows 2000 machine with Office 2000 on it and found the whole user experience infinitely better than the latest offerings. The text was clearer, no fuzzy type (cleartype), menus which stay put to find what you want, etc...

BTW, I know why you do this, to make huge amounts of money from training unfortunate users in corporations too stupid to use Open Office and forced to use the latest Microsoft offerings.

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flinx — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 02:44:20 GMT

sheesh it took me 10 minutes and more googling just to find out how to disable the damn date group view. I hate that.

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ithank — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:00:52 GMT

I hate the changes. The navigation pane take more vertical space than before, so it limits the number of items you can see at any one time (and less because of the ribbon). But what I HATE THE MOST is that the Favorites window loses my favorites constantly!!! It's interesting that the last graphic above shows two inboxes. They won't stay that way!! I have several accounts and 3 or 4 times a week I have to add my other inboxes back in! AAARRRGGGGHHHH! I guess the only resolution is to "Upgrade" back to 2007!

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Laurel Patterson — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 20:00:59 GMT

in regard to the folder order changes - agree with all the negative comments. The alphabetical listing was much better. Or let us define our own orders. I create a lot of sub-folders under my inbox, so I can't even get to my calendar without scrolling down the screen. If you were only doing email, then it might make sense to group things as you have. But who does that?? Most users are moving back & forth between the Inbox & the Calendar as they work, so having them in a non-alphabetical order with the Calendar so far down the list is awkward and annoying.

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Richard — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:01:22 GMT

"First, the folders are in a new order."

And every time you open Outlook 2010, there's a 50/50 chance they'll be in a different order, and you'll have to close and re-open Outlook to get them back in the right order.

Seriously, how difficult can it be to keep the folders in the same damn order?! >:(

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Aprema — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:17:01 GMT

Many nice features with 2010, but you COMPLETELY MISSED THE MARK on the dark gray navigation pane and the apparent inability to change back to black font on white background. I'm a Microsoft partner - gave Office 2010 demo today to 3 clients upon loading my action pack version on my laptop, and I was actually embarrassed that I couldn't change the navigation pane color from the immutable gray to white or another higher contrast (lighter) color after repeated requests by those in attendance to "get rid of the gray". After scouring the net, I found 100's of other users who agree. So, when will we have the nice new features of 2010 without losing the simple flexibility to decide on our own colors? Please, please, please - a better job needs to be done with actual user testing and focus groups...

re: What’s new in the Outlook Navigation Pane

Kees — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 21:50:32 GMT

Melissa MacBeth said "We hope these changes make your Outlook experience faster and more enjoyable.".

The choice to reduce the contrast in the navigation pane yields the opposite effect on everyone.

Please restore the white background.

re: What’s new in the Outlook Navigation Pane

Josh Meisels, Outlook Program Manager — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:27:22 GMT

@Eddy, if you don't like the ribbon taking up space you can collapse it by double-clicking the tab you are on. A single-click will open it for you to select a command. Additionally, many of your favorite keyboard shortcuts are preserved. For example, alt+f will open the Backstage which is the 2010 equivalent of a file menu with commands such as print, save, and open. Each of these commands has a designated shortcut too. Thus alt+f+p will still get you to print. You can see all of the ribbon shortcuts simply by pressing the alt key once. I hope this helps ease your frustration! Josh Meisels, Outlook Program Manager