Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook

Today when I have tried to access to Outlook client from my laptop I have received the following error message:

"Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. Cannot open the outlook window. Invalid XML. The view cannot be loaded."

I have found several fixes on internet for this error but anyone of them have solve my problem. Finally, I have running the following command from Start –> Run, and I could access to Outlook without problems:

outlook.exe /resetnavpane

So it seems a problem with the navigation panel on my Outlook client. You can use a several number of commands to fix Outlook, a detailed list is included on this article http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/commandlineswitches.htm

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Use two columns to sort your Outlook folders

If you can sort your Outlook inbox items you can do it by clicking the column title that you want to use to sort them. For example, to sort them by date you just need to click on Received column and they will be sorted in descending order, and if you click on it again, in ascending order.

But, what do you do if you want to sort by two columns? It is very simple, you just need to click on the first column, hold down the [Shift] key and then click on the second one. A small up or down arrow will appears on both columns to indicate that you are sorting the folder by these columns.

For example, if you want to group your mails by sender and by size, you should click on From column, hold down [Shift] key and then click on Size column. This should be the result:

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