any way to get old preview pane back in 2003?

[Oxgaard]

So, I've now played with outlook 2003 for a few days, and I singularly disappointed.

The new desing of the main interface causes me to spend a lot of extra time looking for the information I need. This is mainly because the list of email's are no longer a list with different columns, it is now broken down into consecutive sender and subject lines.

Quickly scanning the list for an email from a particular person is now hard, since the list is interrupted. And quickly scanning for a subject is impossible, since the subject text is so light I have to concetrante to even read it...

*sigh* I was so looking forward to his upgrade... I spend several hours a day in outlook, and had such high expectations... But again, microsoft has managed to "fix" what wasn't broken... And if I can't get the old interface design back, microsoft loses a sale.

 

[Patricia Cardoza - [MVP Outlook]]

Select View, Reading Pane, Bottom.

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So, I've now played with outlook 2003 for a few days, and I singularly disappointed.

The new desing of the main interface causes me to spend a lot of extra

time looking for the information I need. This is mainly because the list of
email's are no longer a list with different columns, it is now broken down
into consecutive sender and subject lines.

Quickly scanning the list for an email from a particular person is now

hard, since the list is interrupted. And quickly scanning for a subject is
impossible, since the subject text is so light I have to concetrante to even
read it...

*sigh* I was so looking forward to his upgrade... I spend several hours a

day in outlook, and had such high expectations... But again, microsoft has
managed to "fix" what wasn't broken... And if I can't get the old interface
design back, microsoft loses a sale.

 

[P. Amos]

You can also go to: View|Toolbars|Customize

There you can put appropriate buttons on your toolbar to easily switch between views.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

along with changing the preview to the bottom, you can change the color of
the text in the list - click on the header row and choose customize. it's an
automatic formatting option

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So, I've now played with outlook 2003 for a few days, and I singularly disappointed.

The new desing of the main interface causes me to spend a lot of extra

time looking for the information I need. This is mainly because the list of
email's are no longer a list with different columns, it is now broken down
into consecutive sender and subject lines.

Quickly scanning the list for an email from a particular person is now

hard, since the list is interrupted. And quickly scanning for a subject is
impossible, since the subject text is so light I have to concetrante to even
read it...

*sigh* I was so looking forward to his upgrade... I spend several hours a

day in outlook, and had such high expectations... But again, microsoft has
managed to "fix" what wasn't broken... And if I can't get the old interface
design back, microsoft loses a sale.