Using Folder Home Pages Use folder home pages to replace the view on a folder with a Web page, or use the Outlook View control to display different Outlook items in a folder. | Team LiB Using Folder Home Pages Use folder home pages to replace the view on a folder with a Web page or use the Outlook View control to display different Outlook items in a folder. You can choose any Web page for the folder home page but using a locally stored home page is usually the best because it won t cause Outlook to hang if your Internet connection is slow. Outlook Today is a folder home page but the folder it s in has security restrictions on the type of controls that will display. Folders don t have the same restrictions and as a result they can display controls that Outlook Today cannot. For this reason it s generally better to leave Outlook Today as is and create folder home pages when you want to use a custom Outlook Today page. Open the Folder properties sheet by right-clicking on the folder and choosing Properties from the menu. Select the Home Page tab and enter the URL or browse for a local file. Display the home page by checking Show Home Page by Default for This Folder see Figure . Figure . Set a local file or page from the Internet as your folder home page. Although you can use any file type that displays in Internet Explorer using HTML-formatted pages is more practical than using text or image files as your home page. When you set a local file as your folder home page Outlook will complain about updating offline files. Choose OK to close the dialog and click OK again to close the property sheet or click Cancel if Outlook continues to complain. The local file is set as your folder home page even though you chose Cancel. To view the contents of the folder uncheck Show Home Page by Default for This Folder. To clear the filename choose Restore Defaults. When you assign a folder home page to a Calendar folder you need to use the folder list to view the folder home page. If you select the folder from Calendar s Navigation Pane the folder contents display. Although you can use any HTML page for the folder home page you might like to use a .
