OL 2003 UI: Shortcut to public folder tree?

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Franz Schenk

We have some Public Folder Trees like "Projects" (with all customers as
subfolders) and "Engineering" (with different applications as subfolders).

In Outlook 2003, we can now add the Public Folder "Projects" or
"Engineering" to the links or to favorites. But both solutions are useless,
because browsing through the sub folder tree is not possible. In "Links", no
subfolder is visible, in "Favorites" only the synchronized Subfolders are
visible.

So every time we want to access a subfolder of one of the above categories,
we have to browse through the whole Public Folder tree: Click on "folder
list", then scrolling a lot because the folder windows is too small and with
a lot of mouse klicks, we reach the "Engineering" or "Projects" folder.

Is there a more easy and faster way to access our folders?

Thanks in advance for any help
Franz
 
It works, but: ctrl+y, scroll down, open the public folder tree, scroll down
again and search for the projects and engineering folder, and finally, we
are there.

We are looking for an easy way like "Click on projects" and see all the sub
folders (some kind like in windows explorer)

Franz

neo said:
Does bringing up the folder list via ctrl + y work for the users?
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Due to the Swen virus, all e-mails sent to this account will be deleted
w/out reading.


Franz Schenk said:
We have some Public Folder Trees like "Projects" (with all customers as
subfolders) and "Engineering" (with different applications as subfolders).

In Outlook 2003, we can now add the Public Folder "Projects" or
"Engineering" to the links or to favorites. But both solutions are useless,
because browsing through the sub folder tree is not possible. In
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"Links",
no
subfolder is visible, in "Favorites" only the synchronized Subfolders are
visible.

So every time we want to access a subfolder of one of the above categories,
we have to browse through the whole Public Folder tree: Click on "folder
list", then scrolling a lot because the folder windows is too small and with
a lot of mouse klicks, we reach the "Engineering" or "Projects" folder.

Is there a more easy and faster way to access our folders?

Thanks in advance for any help
Franz
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how about a right click and drag folder to desktop and choose copy here?
(nets you a outlook shortcut to the PF, but I am drawing a blank on the
folder/sub-folder list.)
--
Neo [MVP Outlook]
Due to the Swen virus, all e-mails sent to this account will be deleted
w/out reading.


Franz Schenk said:
It works, but: ctrl+y, scroll down, open the public folder tree, scroll down
again and search for the projects and engineering folder, and finally, we
are there.

We are looking for an easy way like "Click on projects" and see all the sub
folders (some kind like in windows explorer)

Franz

neo said:
Does bringing up the folder list via ctrl + y work for the users?
--
Neo [MVP Outlook]
Due to the Swen virus, all e-mails sent to this account will be deleted
w/out reading.


Franz Schenk said:
We have some Public Folder Trees like "Projects" (with all customers as
subfolders) and "Engineering" (with different applications as subfolders).

In Outlook 2003, we can now add the Public Folder "Projects" or
"Engineering" to the links or to favorites. But both solutions are useless,
because browsing through the sub folder tree is not possible. In
Click to expand...
"Links",
no
subfolder is visible, in "Favorites" only the synchronized Subfolders are
visible.

So every time we want to access a subfolder of one of the above categories,
we have to browse through the whole Public Folder tree: Click on "folder
list", then scrolling a lot because the folder windows is too small
Click to expand...
and
with
a lot of mouse klicks, we reach the "Engineering" or "Projects" folder.

Is there a more easy and faster way to access our folders?

Thanks in advance for any help
Franz
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Thanks for your tip! The best solution so far. Unfortunately, it's not
possible to expand the folder tree from the shortcut nor are the subfolders
visible in the Outlook window after opening the shortcut. But the Folder is
already selected in the Folder List. After clicking the shortcut, the user
must "only" scroll down in the folder list and expand the selected folder.

Franz

neo said:
how about a right click and drag folder to desktop and choose copy here?
(nets you a outlook shortcut to the PF, but I am drawing a blank on the
folder/sub-folder list.)
--
Neo [MVP Outlook]
Due to the Swen virus, all e-mails sent to this account will be deleted
w/out reading.


Franz Schenk said:
It works, but: ctrl+y, scroll down, open the public folder tree, scroll down
again and search for the projects and engineering folder, and finally, we
are there.

We are looking for an easy way like "Click on projects" and see all the sub
folders (some kind like in windows explorer)

Franz

neo said:
Does bringing up the folder list via ctrl + y work for the users?
--
Neo [MVP Outlook]
Due to the Swen virus, all e-mails sent to this account will be deleted
w/out reading.


We have some Public Folder Trees like "Projects" (with all customers as
subfolders) and "Engineering" (with different applications as subfolders).

In Outlook 2003, we can now add the Public Folder "Projects" or
"Engineering" to the links or to favorites. But both solutions are
useless,
because browsing through the sub folder tree is not possible. In "Links",
no
subfolder is visible, in "Favorites" only the synchronized
Click to expand...
Subfolders
are
visible.

So every time we want to access a subfolder of one of the above
categories,
we have to browse through the whole Public Folder tree: Click on "folder
list", then scrolling a lot because the folder windows is too small and
with
a lot of mouse klicks, we reach the "Engineering" or "Projects" folder.

Is there a more easy and faster way to access our folders?

Thanks in advance for any help
Franz
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