Most users quickly discover that left-clicking and dragging the separator above the Home button on the left allows them to shrink and expand the space available for Navigation Pane buttons. This expands the room for lists and shortcuts above by transforming the large buttons into smaller but less intuitive icons. But there is so much more that can be done to personalize the Navigation Pane.

Cleaning up the Navigation Pane can provide faster and simpler navigation options. Let's see how by completing the following steps:

Now the Purchasing choice has been moved to the top where a user can easily get at it and the Sales option not required for this user has been removed.

In our example, a heavy user of the Purchasing module now has that Navigation Pane button immediately below the Home button and easily accessible. The Sales button, which wouldn't be used by a typical Purchasing employee, has been removed to clean up the interface.