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Mac - Outlook View>Columns

Anonymous
2019-12-05T07:14:36+00:00

Hi - 

I am coming over to Mac from PC and am a heavy email user for work.

I am really struggling with the switch - namely that there are a few things that are giving me issues and keeping me from being as productive as normal...oddly this is being able to organize my Inbox without limitations.

I am seeing that View>Columns is disabled / greyed out across my Outlook account AND my Gmail accounts.

Is there any way of addressing this?

TIA

Outlook | MacOS | Legacy Outlook for Mac | For business

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Anonymous
2019-12-06T01:36:02+00:00

Dear RakoNYC,

Thanks for your post in Microsoft community. Generally depending on the type of items in the Outlook for Mac list, Columns are available. When the reading pane is hidden or Bottom or off, Columns work best.

To do so :

  1. Open Outlook for mac -> select Organize -> Reading Pane -> select Bottom or Off.
  2. Select View -> Columns are visible, and then click a column name.

Columns in the current view are identified with a check mark.

  • Click on a column heading to sort by that column.
  • To rearrange the columns, click a column heading, and then drag it to a new position.
  • To resize a column, rest the pointer on the right edge of the column header until the pointer changes, and then drag the edge.

Article for your reference:

However, for using Outlook for Mac, as we have a dedicated support team for it, which is specializing in handling issues related to Outlook for Mac. Therefore, we recommend you that for further assistance please go to Outlook for Mac support.

  • To contact it just select Help-> Contact Support in Outlook client.

Thanks and regards,

Ankita Vaidya

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-12-05T14:24:43+00:00

    I just deleted the Gmail accounts and the Outlook account still doesn’t have this feature

    so its not an account setting or type from my test but the actual app

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-12-05T12:24:48+00:00

    Thanks for the reply. 

    I have the following configuration:

    1x Outlook corporate account

    2x Google accounts (not configured as IMAP but via the wizard that Outlook uses)

    Based on your hypothesis should I delete the Gmail accounts and then see if the View / Columns comes back?

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-12-05T11:05:47+00:00

    Not all View/Options are available depending on the type of mail account, an IMAP type account is in my opinon a 'degraded' type for a business mail account.

    And in any case 365 Home is not licensed for bus use

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