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How to set view for all folders in Outlook 2013/2016

Burner EOAS
2023-11-30
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in Email, calendar, and contacts

Apply Current View to Other Mail Folders

1.  In Outlook, click the View tab.



2.  In the View menu, click the Change View drop-down menu.
 



3.  From the 
Change View drop-down menu, click the Apply Current View to Other Mail Folders... option.

 

 




4.  From here, you may select specific folders to apply the view or select the 
Apply view to subfolders check box to apply the view to all subfolders, then click OK.
 

 


 


Reset All Views to Default

If the view is still not applied to a desired folder, the individual folder was most likely set to a custom view previously. To correct this action, reset the view settings of all Outlook folders back to the default setting by launching Outlook with the cleanviews switch.

1.  Ensure Outlook is closed.

2.  From the Run command (Windows Key + R), type outlook.exe /cleanviews and click OK.

 

 




3.  Outlook will open and all view settings will be set to default.

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Comments (4)

Dakota Vaughn Mon, 11th May 2020 5:15am

THANK YOU! This is the only tutorial that has actually addressed the root of my problem!!

Mari Olsen Mon, 8th Feb 2021 9:23am

This solution does not apply to all 'New' folders and subfolders, as I expected it would.

Adela Pisar Thu, 9th Feb 2023 9:17am

Help please? I followed instructins and got "Cannot Start MS OUTLOOK. The command line argument is not valid. Verify the switch you are using". Does anyone here know what this answer mean? I had gotten it by Start + R and typed "outlook.exe /cleanviews and click".

What I am trying to get is the default MS Outlook Inbox page which is all out of order. Anyone here could help me please? Anticipating myBIG THANKS!

Adela Pisar Thu, 9th Feb 2023 5:02pm

Thank you very much but using:

"Apply Current View to Other Mail Folder"

under "Change View" it made my Inbox look as bad as I have it now which is not complete or correct. I want to change it as it was before or Deftault. Thanks anyway.

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