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I'm using Microsoft Outlook 2010 on Windows 7 64. I want the unread count of my mailboxes to show on the Navigation Pane, but on the mailbox, not on the folders. I like to keep my mailboxes compacted so when an email comes in I'd like it to be shown in the view of the screenshot:

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My Google-fu has failed me, or this isn't a setting-option. I'd be willing to set up a macro that would do it upon application.open, but I'm unfamiliar with Outlook VBA. Any help is greatly appreciated!

Oh, an a screenshot that I made of what I'm looking for:

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Oh, and I know that using favorites will do something like this for me, but I don't want to use that. I want it like this, if possible.

Sathyajith Bhat
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One "sort-of" solution is to first disable unread count in all folders, as described in:
Enable or disable Folder Unread count in Subscribed folders in MS Outlook 2010.

To get back the unread count, you would then create a Search Folder that aggregates all the emails of the folder and all its subfolders into a single view, modifying the Search Folder criteria to show only the unread items in that folder.

The following article might also be useful :
Refreshing unread counts for IMAP folders in Outlook 2007 or 2010

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