By default, Outlook opens with the Inbox folder displayed, which makes sense because most people use Outlook primarily for email. If most of your Outlook time is spent in the Calendar, instead, you might prefer to display the Calendar folder automatically at startup. Here’s how to do it:
- Choose Tools, Options. Outlook opens the Options dialog box.
- Select the Other tab.
- Click Advanced Options. Outlook opens the Advanced Options dialog box.
- Click Browse. Outlook opens the Select Folder dialog box.
- Select the Calendar folder.
- Click OK to return to the Advanced Options dialog box.
- Click OK to return to the Options dialog box.
- Click OK to put the new setting into effect.
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These days, it’s not uncommon for Outlook users to spend equal amounts of time in both the Inbox and Calendar folders. Rather than continually switch from one to the other in the main Outlook window,you can display a second Outlook window.This enables you to leave,say,the Inbox folder open in the first window and have the Calendar folder open in the second window.To set this up, right-click Calendar in Outlook’s Navigation pane and then click Open in New Window. Note, too, that if you leave the second window open when you exit Outlook, the program “remembers” that you had a second window open and will automatically open it again the next time you start Outlook.
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November 2nd, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Hi
It’s my experience that Outlook 2007 does not remember the configuration when you quit it, so it does not restart in that configuration next day. For example, I like to have my email and calendar open in separate windows: when I close down in this state in the evening, and start up next morning, only my email appears.
Any advice on what I’m doing wrong? (I’m running Windows XP.)