How to prevent automatic collapsing of "inner" folders when collapsing "outer" folder in Outlook 200

[Sven Claasen]

In Outlook 2003 I created a big private folder tree where I store all my emails according to the topic.
Assume I expanded all the folder so that the "inner" folders are all visible in the tree.

Now I collapse the outermost folder and re-open (re-expand) it again immediately.

I expected that the collapse/expand state of the "inner" folder is kept.
Much to my surprise this is not the case. ALL folders are collapsed and I have to re-open them
all manually again. This is very un-convenient.

Is there an option to prevent this automatic collapsing of inner mail folders?

Sven

 

[Bill in Co.]

Why was this crossposted to the XP newsgroups?

 

[Vince Averello]

As far as I know, no. Collapsing the outside collapses the inside.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

You can't prevent it but Ctrl+* (on the numeric keypad) expands it.
See http://www.outlook-tips.net/archives/2009/20090304.htm

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[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

In Outlook 2003 I created a big private folder tree where I store all my
emails according to the topic.
Assume I expanded all the folder so that the "inner" folders are all visible
in the tree.

Now I collapse the outermost folder and re-open (re-expand) it again
immediately.

I expected that the collapse/expand state of the "inner" folder is kept.
Much to my surprise this is not the case. ALL folders are collapsed and I
have to re-open them
all manually again. This is very un-convenient.

Is there an option to prevent this automatic collapsing of inner mail
folders?

I don't believe Outlook keeps track of the expansion status of the inner
folders, only the top level.

 

[DL]

Doesnt happen here, on 2003 or 2007
This is a pop account?