What is the purpose of the navigation pane?

Answer 1

A pane or panel is typically something that runs down the side of a window, typically the left side.

The "Navigation Pane" found in Windows Explorer displays a hierarchical tree view of the subfolders in the selected folder, if any, and the + and - buttons alongside the items in the tree can be clicked to show the contents of other folders.

Such a pane may be found in other applications, although I do not know of any that do so.

Answer 2

What we call a navigation pane is basically a small screen that gives you a fewchoices for where the computer program will allow you to go. Navigation Panes include click able buttons and a small amount of explanation of what choices you have and what to do about it

Answer 3

The Navigation Pane is the place or rather platform which allows the users to change and switch between the different areas like the Calendar, Contacts and Mail.