Customizing Views in OL2003 across a "Personal Folders" folder set

[groupslrn]

My company has migrated to Outlook 2003 and I would like to make some
changes to the new Default Views.

I have read the tips at outlook-tips.net and gone through this group in
some detail but have not been able to accomplish my goals

I have a bunch of folders saved on my local drive under "Personal
Folders" which is on the same tree level as the main mailbox. I would
like to
1) Disable Grouping
2) Disable the Reading Pane

For 1) I tried View->Define Views->... per outlook-tips.net but it did
not work across the subfolders in the Personal Folders directory. I
also tried disabling the Group view by View->Arrange By-> uncheck Show
in Groups folder by folder. Painful and it didn't "Stick"

Similarly for 2), I can't see a clear path to disabling the Reading
Pane across a large batch of folders.

I'm sure I'm doing several things incorrectly but believe I've come
across my ignorance the hard way. Suggestions gratefully appreciated.

--- Ravi

 

[Brian Tillman]

For 1) I tried View->Define Views->... per outlook-tips.net but it did
not work across the subfolders in the Personal Folders directory.

Did you remove all your custom views first, as described in the article
there?

 

[groupslrn]

Did you remove all your custom views first, as described in the article
there?

Yes. Here are the steps I followed:

From the command line: outlook /cleanviews

{Outlook Starts}

From the Advanced Toolbar, select "Define Views"

Select Messages
Select Modify
Select Group By --> Unselect "Automatically Group ..." --> OK
Select Other Settings --> Unselect "Show Items in Groups", select "No
Auto Preview," select "Reading Pane Off"
Ok --> Ok --> Apply View

Only the highlighted subfolder under Personal Folders changes. All the
others remain as they were.

--- Ravi

 

[groupslrn]

Refreshing this topic in hopes there are some further ideas on why
Define Views is not (apparently) working across a set of email folders
in Outlook 2003.