Understanding the Different Folders Within Microsoft Outlook 2003

Monday, September 26, 2011

Outlook provides folders where you can save and store the items you create. You can access these folders by using the default panes in the navigation pane. You can also access them by clicking the folder list icon in the navigation pane and then clicking the associated one. You can either use the default folders in Outlook or create your own.

There are a number of different folders, all with different purposes. The mailbox displays the outlook today page, which provides a snapshot view of your activities planned for the day. If Outlook is not connected to an exchange server, it will be named personal folders instead of mailbox. The calendar helps you plan and schedule work-related and personal activities, such as appointments, meetings, and events. Your contacts folder stores information about people with whom you frequently communicate with. You also have a deleted items folder; it stores items that have been deleted. Furthermore, your drafts stores unfinished items, in the inbox you can create, send, receive, delete and move messages from the inbox.

Your journal helps you keep a record of any interaction that you want to remember. It stores actions that you choose relating to your contacts and places the actions in a timeline view. Your junk E-mail stores messages that were caught by the junk e-mail filter. Notes will provide a facility to keep reminders about important activities to complete and meetings that you need to attend. Your Outbox will store items created offline that you want to send the next time you are online. Sent items store copies of items you sent to other people. Sync issues store errors when synchronizing exchange mailbox files with local mailbox files. Tasks provide a facility to create and manage the various activities you have to perform. And finally, your search folders display the results of previously defined search queries.

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