Outlook 2013 is a great email and calendar software, but it can be a little difficult to find the right tools to make your life easier. One of the most important tools in Outlook is the navigation bar. The navigation bar is a group of icons that help you quickly access your favorite features and folders. To make the navigation bar compact in Outlook 2013, follow these steps:
- Open Outlook and click on the Tools button. This will open the Options dialog box.
- In the Options dialog box, select General from the left side of the screen. This will open the Navigation Bar Properties dialog box.
- In this dialog box, set compact to true and then click on OK to close it.
If you are using Outlook 2013 on a smaller screen, you may not want the Navigation Bar at the bottom of the window to be full size. You can easily change it to be more compact at the bottom of the folder pane.
To make the Navigation Bar compact, click the View tab.
In the Layout section, click Folder Pane and select Options from the drop-down menu.
On the Navigation Options dialog box, select the Compact Navigation check box so there is a check mark in the box. Click OK.
NOTE: You can also use this dialog box to change the number of items that are visible on the Navigation Bar (the rest are visible by clicking the … button on the bar) and to change the order in which the items are displayed.
The Navigation Bar reduces in size, to fit in the Folder pane, and the buttons are represented by icons rather than text.
You can also access the Navigation Options dialog box by clicking the … button on the Navigation Bar and selecting Navigation Options, as shown above.
