If you are making use of Outlook 2013 on a smaller screen, you might not want the Navigation Bar at the bottom of the home window to be full dimension. You can conveniently alter it to be a lot more compact at the bottom of the folder pane.

To make the Navigation Bar compact, click the View tab.

In the Layout area, click Folder Pane and also pick Options from the drop-down food selection.

On the Navigation Options dialog box, choose the Compact Navigation check box so there is a check mark in the box. Click OK.

NOTE: You can also utilize this dialog box to transform the variety of items that show up on the Navigation Bar (the remainder show up by clicking the … switch on the bar) and to riffle in which the items are presented.

The Navigation Bar reduces in size, to fit in the Folder pane, as well as the switches are represented by icons instead of text.

You can likewise access the Navigation Options dialog box by clicking the … switch on the Navigation Bar as well as picking Navigation Options, as revealed above.