How to create your own “Inbox All” button in Outlook 2013
1) In Windows 8, use selfcert.exe to create a certificate
1a) on Windows 8 64 or 32 bit, highlight the following single line of text, and copy it to your clipboard (Ctrl+C)
%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office\Office15\SELFCERT.EXE
1b) press Win+R to launch the Run dialogue box
1c) press Backspace key to delete whatever you already have in there
1d) now just Paste (Ctrl+V) and click OK
1e) type any name you like, perhaps your user name, or full name, and click OK, I used “Inbox All cert”
1f) optionally, if you’re curious about where this cert is saved, just paste this into your Start, Run dialogue (Win+R)
%AppData%\Microsoft\SystemCertificates\My\Certificates
2) In Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), create your new macro that does the custom inbox search
2a) visit Diane Poremsky’s site to read all about the short macro she created, as well as excellent training videos on using VBA, at www.slipstick.com/how-to-outlook/how-to-create-a-unified-inbox
2b) I’ve found one fresh-install system doesn’t seem to like it when any dates are specified, coming up blank, so I’ve removed the ” received: (this week)” from Diane’s macro, and now it works, so just copy just the 6 lines of plain text below into your clipboard (no trailing carriage return is necessary) (Feb 5 2013 version)
Sub UnifiedInbox()
Dim myOlApp As New Outlook.Application
txtSearch = "folder:Inbox "
myOlApp.ActiveExplorer.Search txtSearch, olSearchScopeAllFolders
Set myOlApp = Nothing
End Sub
2c) in Outlook 2013, from any view at all, just press Alt+F11 to bring up VBA
2d) expand the “Project1″ section, “Microsoft Outlook Objects” section, then double-click on “ThisOutlookSession”
2e) click on the “VbaProject.OTM” window’s blank area, then Paste (Ctrl+V)
3) Add the self-signed certificate to your new macro
3a) certify it by clicking the “Tools” menu, then selecting “Digital Signature”
3b) choose the digital signature you already created
3c) with the proper just-created “Inbox All cert” certificate single-click highlighted, click OK on the “Windows Security” dialogue:
3d) confirm all the info, click OK
3e) be sure to save the VbaProject.OTM now, by clicking on the floppy icon at top left
3f) close it
4) In Outlook 2013, allow certified Macros to run
4a) click FILE, Options,
4b) “Trust Center” tab, “Trust Center Settings…” button
4c) on the “Macro Settings” tab, select “Notifications for all macros” and click OK
5) In Outlook 2013, add “Inbox All” macro to the toolbar
5a) at the very top left of Outlook, you’ll see the “Customize Quick Access Toolbar” down-arrow symbol, left-click it
5b) choose “Show Below the Ribbon”
5c) Yes, it’s now below the Ribbon. Next, on the blank area to the right of the down-arrow symbol, right-click then choose “Customize Quick Access Toolbar…”
5d) from the Choose commands from drop-down menu, select “Macros”
5e) with “Project1.ThisOutlookSession.UnifiedInbox single-click selected, click Add to move it to the right “Customize Quick Access Toolbar” window
5f) click the “Modify…” button
5g) change the Display name, I used “Inbox All, then click on the mail icon, then click OK
5h) you may want to adjust the order by selecting “Inbox All” and clicking the “Move Up” button
5i) optionally, there are very useful icons that are not always easy to find from all ribbon views, like “Print”, so if you’d like, grab it from the All Commands view seen below, you may also want to adjust the sorting order of the Quick Access Toolbar items in the right pane, when done, click OK
5j) now it’s time to test it, just click your new little tiny “Inbox All” button:
and you should see this warning only once, click the “Trust all documents from this publisher” button, and you won’t get nagged again (CLOSE A REOPEN OUTLOOK)
you’ll also now see the last week’s worth of email from all your accounts appear very quickly, just a few more cosmetic tweaks, and you’re done
