Outlook properties "show total number of items"

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In Outlook you can set each folder's properties to "Show Unread items" or
"Show total number of items". The problem is the default is "Unread", if I
want to change all of my folders to "total number of items", I have to change
it every time. Seems like there would be a way to set the default to
"total...item" or a way to run a macro to set all folders. Unread is nice,
if you have 50 + folders.....
Any suggestions would be welcomed. Thanks,

Dan
 
Dan,
I was able to go into the properties of all of my folders and choose "Show
total number of items" then I clicked on Apply then OK. I closed and
reopened my Outlook several times and it stayed the way I had set it. You
may have a different problem going on. Try typing outlook.exe /safe in the
Run window to open Outlook then set it and try reopen it to see if it
stayed.

If I have misunderstood this problem, let me know.

Good luck,
audeyt
 
audeyt said:
Dan,
I was able to go into the properties of all of my folders and choose "Show
total number of items" then I clicked on Apply then OK. I closed and
reopened my Outlook several times and it stayed the way I had set it. You
may have a different problem going on. Try typing outlook.exe /safe in the
Run window to open Outlook then set it and try reopen it to see if it
stayed.

If I have misunderstood this problem, let me know.

Good luck,
audeyt







audeyt,
Click to expand...

I guess my description was confusing. Sometimes it is hard to describe this
stuff in detail. What I want to do is go to a main folder that has several
sub-folders in it and set all folders and subs at one time. For example if
I have a set folders called colors and under colors I have sub-folders called
red, blue, orange, etc., I don't like going to each one and setting the
properties of each to "total number...". I would like to set the main folder
and all the subs be set also. This probably does not work unless someone has
written a macro to do this. Thanks for responding.

Dan
 
I understand now. Unfortunately you are correctly, the is no way of turning
it on at the parent folder level and the sub-folders be turned on as well.
 
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