How to permanently show Folder pane

Anonymous
2023-01-11T17:44:51+00:00

Suddenly today my folder pane is hidden by default. I have not changed any settings. I can go to View>Layout>Folder pane>Show and it will pop up but it will disappear if I click anywhere but the folder pane. I need to see the folder pane all the time. How can I change this? (And why did it change itself?)

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-01-09T16:52:57+00:00

    Try this - right click, then click on 'reading mode - new'

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-01-13T14:24:30+00:00

    Tried that but it doesn't stay. This has only happened since 12/01. I'll keep trying

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-02-22T05:47:11+00:00

    Those 3 little stripes to the left of the Home button are flaky. First they only popped up the folder pane momentarily, next day they kept it open permanently; yet another day the folder pane is gone again. Reloading the page in the browser sometimes resolves it, sometimes it doesn't.

    I am using Chrome on Windows 11.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-02-28T06:13:52+00:00

    I'm having the same problem - tried it in both Edge and Chrome; same result. My email ends with outlook.com - I don't know what type of account it is among the options you listed. I never had to go to View>Layout>Folder Pane>Show before but now I have to do that every time I log back in in order to see the folder pane.

    Same drama's here. Everything was fine now the folder pane has disappeared and all I see now is messages with no fder pane. The whole app decided to change my original format by itself and I can't get the folder pane to show permanently even following Microsofts instructions???

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-03-14T23:43:07+00:00

    I had the same problem but resolved it. I did away with the 'preview email' panel which made then made room for the folders panel and the inbox panels. I haven't had that problem since. I don't really miss the preview email info at all. I hope this helps. :-)

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