Collapse/expand Feature In Outlook

To collapse (or minimize) the Ribbon, do one of the following:

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Unfortunately, this feature isn’t in Word for the web yet. If you have the Word desktop program, you can click Open in Word to open your document in Word and collapse or expand parts of the document there, but those sections will be expanded when you view your document in Word for the web. Outlook can save the expand/collapse state of your groups but doesn’t do this for all views by default. Always Expand/Collapse all Groups or use As Last Viewed. In Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007, the By Category view in the Contacts folder (and several other pre-defined views) had the expand/collapse option set to “As Last Viewed”. Back in Outlook 2010, Microsoft introduced the Conversation View, which works something like Gmail’s conversation threading. It’s turned on by default in newer versions Outlook, but not if you upgraded from an older version where it was switched off. So, if you didn’t know it was there, it might be time to take a look. I was looking for the expand and collapse feature for the RADOutlookBar control. I can't find any property that do so. Is it possible to incorporate the expand/collapse feature just like MS outllokbar. I will be greateful, if your team can provide such a feature to the current RAD control,if it doesn't exists. Conversations that include multiple messages are identified in the message list by a triangular expand/collapse icon. Select the icon to expand or collapse a Conversation. Within each Conversation, messages are sorted with the newest message on top. You cannot change this sort order.

  • Double-click the label of the tab you're currently using.
  • Click the Minimize the Ribbon button:
  • Press Ctrl+F1.
  • In the Ribbon displays options list, choose Show Tabs:
Collapse/expand Feature In Outlook

While the Ribbon is minimized, click any tab to turn it back on temporarily. Itwill automatically hide when you're done using it.

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To totally hide the Ribbon, just choose Auto-hide Ribbon in the Ribbondisplays options list:

It hides Ribbon and displays three dots near the upper-right corner of the screen instead. Clickthe three dots button to redisplay the Ribbon temporarily. When you click back in the document,the Ribbon hides itself again:

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To expand the Ribbon back to its normal size when you want to have it displayedagain, do one of the following:

  • Double-click the current tab again.
  • While the Ribbon is minimized, click any tab to turn it back on temporarily and the click theExpand the Minimized Ribbon button:
  • Press Ctrl+F1.
  • In the Ribbon displays options list, choose Show Tabs and Commands:

See also this tip in French:Comment réduire le ruban pour obtenir plus d'espace à l'écran dans Outlook.

I was asked the other day if there was a way to expand all the Outlook Inbox folders without clicking each one separately. The person had inadvertently moved a folder somewhere else, and they wanted to be able to see all the expanded folders so they could easily spot it. My first pass at research made it appear there was no way to do that without writing macros and such, but then I found this tip that works pretty good (provided you’re running Windows)…

In the example below, I have a folder (Renewal Tracking) that has a number of nested subfolders in it:

In order to expand that folder without clicking on it, I can left-click the Inbox folder and then press the Windows Key at the same time you press the Asterisk key on the numeric keypad on your keyboard:

(This is the Windows Key)

As you can see, the Renewal Tracking folder has expanded one level. If I had other first level folders, they would have expanded also. If I keep pressing that key combination, everything continues to expand as deep as necessary:

If you want to collapse everything again, just double left-click the Inbox folder.

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I have noticed that sometimes a single Windows > Asterisk combination key press will expand everything in one press. I’m not quite sure why that is, but either way this is far better than having to click each item individually.