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Now, while we're on the topic of setting up your Outlook workspace here, I want to talk a little bit about how to manipulate or manage that workspace so it looks, and feels, and works the way you want it to. And there's lots of ways to do this, I mean there's just almost more than I can explain in one particular module here, so throughout the entire tutorial I'll talk about different ways. And one of the ways that I'm kind of foreshadowing here is that you can give yourself more desktop real estate for either the message itself, for seeing the folder view. You can use these little divider bars that are in between the To-Do Bar area, and your Reading Pane, and your List, and then your Navigation Pane. All those can be manipulated around to best suite your particular reading needs, and again keep in mind that this is 800x600 resolution. You're probably using a higher resolution and are therefore able to see a lot more information, so it's probably most acute, the problems of crowding the desktop, on my computer and on the recordings that I'm making. It probably won't be quite as pronounced on yours. But be that as it may, there's still some ways that you free up a lot of the space. I think I pointed out here that you can minimize this To-Do Bar if you want to, and you just click that little chevron there, you can close it all together, and then go to your View Menu, and then turn on and off the To-Do Bar if you want to. You notice also that there are a set of options for the To-Do Bar which you can also get to with a right click. So if I go to the To-Do Bar, and give a right click on the title of the To-Do Bar itself, and go to options, I can show a couple of months, a couple of appointments, and then decide whether or not to show the Task List. So I can configure this just how I want it to behave. On the other side of the desktop, there are options that will, again, free up your real estate. And this over here on the left hand side; we've focused mostly on the right hand side, but now the left hand side where I now see my mail folders, this is the Navigation Pane. And the Navigation Pane can also be filed away; can be tucked away into the corner, just like that. And now you can navigate to the Inbox. What's that going to be, of course it's the Calendar. What's that going to be, that's you list of contacts; that's your list of tasks. And as you go around to different places within Outlook as you deal with your tasks, you'll notice that sometimes it has a To-Do Bar, sometimes it has a Reading Pane, and sometimes it does not. If I'm dealing with just the Calendar, notice that that Reading Pane as well as the To-Do Bar, those both go away. In the Navigation Pane now, notice if I hover my mouse over this big bar that's titled Navigation Pane; that means it's a pretty good indicator that I can click on it. And if I do click on it, I see this little min-navigational pane here. So if I'm dealing with the Inbox, look how this changes. Go to the Inbox, and if I want to go to my Sent Items for example, or my Junk E-mail, or my Drafts, I have this little mini-navigational pane that shows up. So keep that in mind. You can also resize this to meet however big you need it; in case you've made a shortcut, or maybe a folder that has a long title, you can expand that out and then back again. So toggle it on and off just like that. Another thing you can do is you can change what these buttons, how many buttons are shown in the Navigation Pane and allow for more buttons as well. So these are navigational buttons that just let you quickly navigate to the Calendar, Contacts, Tasks. That's the same as it was in Outlook 2003 by the way; same with all these options down here. So just quickly breeze past some of these. Your folder list is a way that a lot of people like to navigate around Outlook 2007. And once again, if I show the folder list, now I get in a folder view, the ability to toggle between my Calendar and my Contacts, and my Inbox, and my Journal. Finally, in this bottom little button here, I have an Options Menu, or a little Options Chevron, where I have the ability to set some of my Navigational Pane options. So if you want to add the Journal, if you want to remove the Shortcuts for example, which I don't think really has much of a purpose, of course unless you're using shortcuts extensively. Then you can remove that and just reduce the clutter on this Navigational Pane just a little bit. As a final note here, and I know speaking of previous versions of Outlook, Outlook 2003 and previous, a lot of people have never really gotten used to this Reading Pane. I love it. I really prefer the Reading Pane because it gives me again, kind of a left to right view of how I'm used to reading things. And that's how it was designed. But another way that you can manipulate Outlook 2007, the interface, is that you can reset things so that you see your e-mail on the top and the actually e-mail itself on the bottom; or the list of e-mail, your inbox, on the top, and the e-mail itself on the bottom. So, you do that in the View menu here, and this is really just like it was before in Outlook 2003. You set your Reading Pane options to Off, Bottom, or Right. So if I set it to Bottom, then it looks more like previous editions.