The Living in Outlook series is about sharing tips and workflows around real-world scenarios. We’ll start the conversation with a topic – you can add to it by posting your tips and workflows in the comments!If you read RSS feeds in Outlook like I do, you might notice that the default list view isn’t ideal for blogs written by a single person. Since the author is usually the same for my RSS feeds, I’d much rather have the subject of the article be the most prominent piece of information. So what’s my solution? To create a custom view for my RSS feed folders,
Office 2010 Home And Student!This is how my RSS feed articles are currently displayed:And this is how they are displayed after I apply my custom view:By switching the placement of the Subject and Author in the message list it’s easier for me to scan my news headlines and find the most interesting articles. If you want another way to see your RSS articles in Outlook,
Office 2010 Activation, try this out! Creating a custom view 1. To define a new view for your RSS feeds,
Genuine Office 2010, start by clicking View | Current View | Define Views… 2. Click New… to create a new view: 3. Fill out the Create a New View dialog box…
Rename the view (I chose to name mine “RSS”) Leave the default type on Table. And change the Can be used on option to All Mail and Post folders. Click OK. 4. Click on the Fields… button. 5. The only change you need to make here is the order in which the fields are displayed. Click Subject and then click Move Up,
Office 2010 Professional Key, then click OK. 6. Now you’re ready to apply this view to your RSS feed folders! In one of your RSS folders, go to the View menu and select your new view (mine’s called RSS) and you’re done,
Windows 7 License! To use this view on other RSS folders, repeat Step 6 for each folder.Do you use custom views? If so, let us know what works best for you!Allie BellewOutlook Program Manager