A Look at Office Outlook 2007
Office Outlook 2007 doesn’t share the same new user interface that Microsoft® Office Word 2007, Microsoft® Office Excel® 2007, Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® 2007, and Microsoft® Office Access 2007 all share. The new Office Outlook 2007 at first glance looks similar to Office Outlook 2003: the menus are familiar (File, Edit, View, Go, Tools, Actions, and Help), and the navigation pane on the left looks the same (see Figure 10-1). But a closer look will show you a number of new features—specifically, you’ll notice the Search box at the top of the Inbox column, the RSS Feeds folder in the Mail Folders navigation pane, and the new To-Do Bar along the right side of the window. Each of these items will be more fully discussed in the appropriate sections later in this chapter.
Changing the Office Outlook 2007 Window
You can now “collapse” the navigation pane in Office Outlook 2007 when you want to give yourself more room to work on-screen. Your favorite folders and the icons for the primary views—Mail, Calendar, Contacts, and Tasks—are available in the collapsed bar so that you can continue to select those views as needed.
To collapse the navigation pane, click the left arrows at the top of the pane. The navigation pane is minimized to a vertical bar, stretching alongside the left edge of the Office Outlook 2007 window (see Figure 10-2). When you want to return the navigation pane to its original display, click the right arrows at the top of the bar.
