Outlook 2007 Favorite Folders disappeared

I ran into an issue today where someone's Outlook 2007 lost the Favorite Folders in the navigation pane.

 

The obvious place to go to try showing it again was View - Navigation Pane but to my surprise Favorite Folders was no longer listed.

 

After some digging around on Google I came across this article, which lead me to a solution that worked for this particular situation (Outlook 2007, Windows 7).

 

http://blog.palehorse.net/2007/09/26/outlook-ate-my-favorite-shortcuts/

 

Specifically what action I took was:

 

- Close Outlook

- Go to the command prompt

- Browse to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12
- Execute OUTLOOK.EXE /resetnavpane
- Open Outlook
- Go to View - Navigation Pane and check Favorite Folders

 

Here's a a good website that describes the available command line switches for Outlook.

 

http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/commandlines.htm