Reset current view for all sub folders in inbox?

[Guest]

Outlook 2003.
View|arrange by|current view|customize current view|reset current view

This works great one folder at a time. How can I get this to work for all
folders in the inbox without going into each folder individually?

 

[Vanguard \(NPI\)]

Outlook 2003.
View|arrange by|current view|customize current view|reset current view

This works great one folder at a time. How can I get this to work for all
folders in the inbox without going into each folder individually?

Use the /cleanviews command-line switch, as in:

outlook.exe /cleanviews

However, this wipes the views for ALL folders back to the default settings.
See:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=296192

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the quick response. I'm not real technical...not familiar with
these switches. They look serious. A couple follow-on questions:

When you say this resets ALL folders, does that mean that all folders look
just like the inbox, so that the sent items folder would show the FROM column
and not the TO column, or does this set all folders to their appropriate
defaults? So the inbox would have the FROM column and the Sent items folder
would have the TO column?

Is this something that could be run once from a command prompt to reset the
folders, or is it intended to become part of the command called by the
Outlook shortcut everytime the user loads Outlook? Could it be run once and
then if the user later messes up a folder or two it could be run again as
needed to reset all the folders again?

 

[Vanguard \(NPI\)]

Thanks for the quick response. I'm not real technical...not familiar with
these switches. They look serious. A couple follow-on questions:

When you say this resets ALL folders, does that mean that all folders look
just like the inbox, so that the sent items folder would show the FROM
column
and not the TO column, or does this set all folders to their appropriate
defaults? So the inbox would have the FROM column and the Sent items
folder
would have the TO column?

Is this something that could be run once from a command prompt to reset
the
folders, or is it intended to become part of the command called by the
Outlook shortcut everytime the user loads Outlook? Could it be run once
and
then if the user later messes up a folder or two it could be run again as
needed to reset all the folders again?

The folders get their install-time views. Since the views are deleted, they
use the same ones that are used when you first install Outlook.

You use the command-line switch just the one time you want to reset whatever
attribute(s) are affected by that switch. You could keep the command-line
switch in your shortcut but then you would never be able to retain your
customized views since they would get wiped on the next load of Outlook.
The /recycle is perhaps the only command-line switch that you might want to
permanently keep in the shortcut to ensure that you only load 1 instance of
Outlook.