This is one of those things that I guess you either knew, or you didn’t. It struck me as something that I should be able to do, yet seemingly could; getting multiple RSS feeds in Outlook into the same RSS folder. In fact, I’ve since had a good little play with Outlook and found it can do some great stuff with RSS, but anyway, to the task at hand; aggregrating multiple RSS feeds into one folder.
See, I like my Outlook to be able to display all the stuff I want to do on the left hand pane, without any need for a scrollbar. I have my RSS feeds permanently expanded, and as a result, my total number of RSS feeds is kind of limited by screen real estate. It’s a nightmare of my making, but still. I have a whole bunch of tech/gadget/smartphone/development RSS feeds (I’ll post a list some day), and I wanted to add some feeds for people I know. So I thought of making a People folder, then adding the RSS feeds and dragging the feed’s respective folders to the People folder, and well, that didn’t get me anywhere (it works though) because then I still have a scrollbar when I expand that folder. No deal. What I need is the entries from multiple feeds to go into one folder, and it turns out it’s pretty easy. It’s in how you do it.
You can do this when you add a new feed or editing a curent feed. In Outlook 2010 for an existing feed;
- Create the target folder. Right click on ‘RSS Feeds’ and click ‘New Folder’. Give it a name and hit OK.
- Press the Backstage button (Orange one in the top left labelled ‘File’).
- Click the ‘Account Settings’ drop down, and then select ‘Account Settings’. Redundancy is awesome.
- Go to the ‘RSS Feeds’ tab.
- Select the RSS feed you want to change delivery location for, and hit ‘Change’.
- Under ‘Delivery Location’, hit ‘Change Folder’.
- Select the folder you made earlier, and hit OK.
- Job Done!
If you want to do this when you add a feed, you just have to add it from this Backstage RSS Feeds view. If you just right-click RSS Feeds on the left hand pane and select ‘Add a New RSS Feed’, it will create a new folder with the feed’s title as the folder name. If you add it from Backstage RSS Feeds View, you can choose feed name, and delivery location.
