Outlook Bar

The Outlook Bar, located to the left of the main folder viewer, offers a number of shortcuts to your personal folders, as well as a listing of your private and public folders. The two views available in the Outlook Bar are Shortcuts and Folders. You can switch between the two views by clicking the tabs at the top and bottom of the Outlook Bar.

Shortcuts

By default, Outlook Web Access displays the Shortcuts view of the Outlook Bar. Clicking these shortcut icons opens your Inbox, Calendar, and Contacts folders. The other Outlook Bar icon, Options, links you to functions for setting user options and for activating multimedia messaging.

Folders

The Folders tab displays your personal folders and your organization's public folders. Folders are displayed in a hierarchy, so that you can expand folders as necessary to view subfolders, or collapse the hierarchy to view only the top-level folders. A plus-sign [+] beside a folder will indicate that there are sub-folders nested within them. To view the next level in the folder hierarchy, click the plus-sign.

When you click on any folder in the Outlook Bar, its contents will be displayed in the Outlook Web Access viewing panel.