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Column heading row missing in Outlookk 2016 for subfolders
Finally found the solution. Under views we edited his view and unchecked "User compact layout in width smaller than 125 characters" and this put the header row back in. This was checked by default. I am not sure if this is something that has changed or just some oddity. (see print screen below) Regardless this allowed the header row to come back.
See https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Add-or-remove-columns-in-the-Inbox-78098e3e-8203-47da-815e-cb66f76b512e
Does it help?
No this isn't the fix either, I had tried that thinking if I added some columns to the default it may trigger it to display. The problem is that the entire heading row is gone. So no matter how many columns I add the row itself doesn't show up.
Have you tried to start Outlook in Safe Mode (outlook.exe /safe)? Does the row appear?
Finally found the solution. Under views we edited his view and unchecked "User compact layout in width smaller than 125 characters" and this put the header row back in. This was checked by default. I am not sure if this is something that has changed or just some oddity. (see print screen below) Regardless this allowed the header row to come back.
- Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!! It's 2021 now and yet my most recent update did this exactly thing to my columns in my subfolders. Then I saw your answer here, and it worked perfectly. It saves me HOURS of sorting through hundreds of emails per day, now that I have my columns back. Thank you! 🙂
