Toggling on Focused Inbox will sort your messages into two tabs, Focused and Other. Outlook has a few options for sorting your messages, the same way Gmail does. Turn on message sorting to use Focused Inbox From there you can move the window to the right, the bottom or hide it entirely. To turn the feature off - or relocate the Reading Pane - open Settings in Outlook and scroll down to Reading Pane.

If you typically use Gmail, you'll be more familiar with a setup with no reading pane. It makes for quick scrolling and less clicking when you've got a lot of messages to get through. The reading pane lets you read a selected message without leaving your inbox. In Microsoft Outlook, the basic set up splits your screen into three columns: the list of folders such as Inbox, Sent and Junk Mail the Inbox itself and the reading pane. Read more: 10 Gmail Tricks You'll Use Every Day Get rid of Outlook's reading pane

(Note that you need to make these changes from the browser version of Outlook rather than the app.) If you've made the switch from Gmail to Outlook, here are a few ways to customize Microsoft's platform to look more like Google's to make the transition easier. But if you've found yourself in a job that uses Microsoft's Outlook, it can be discombobulating to swap from one to the other for work and personal use.Įven though email basics like compose, delete and send are almost identical across the services, familiarizing yourself with a new platform can take time. More than 1.5 billion people use Google's Gmail platform.

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