How to Open Emails in Separate Window in New Outlook

Nope, tried that, still gives the inconsistent behaviour described. In fact, that, plus numerous other issues with the new Outlook have forced me to switch it off again and go back to the classic/working version.

Thanks for taking one for the team, John. Still can't believe what a mess this is!

This is not the solution, nor is it a new option. That option is specific to "what happens when you write, reply or forward a message", not what happens when you are looking at an email folder and click on an email to open.

When reading pane is disabled a single click should NEVER open the email within the same window.

If it's not an answer it already answers because I have the reading pane disabled and it suddenly started opening in a new window which i thought I liked it and it's even better but then of course as with everything when someone finally adapts to something someone takes it away because apparently anywhere nobody likes to see anyone happy or pleased.. it's what we've become to... anyway

So no worries i got it and it either opens in a new window or it doesn't and apparently no one knows why not even at microsoft apparently but it seems it depends on how fast i click it because I tested that.

Maybe I should work at microsoft!

So.. my dad has an issue and no one at microsoft also could help him,... but i'll try anyway maybe someone NOT at Microsoft will be bale to answer this:

He suddenly got Microsoft updated to the new one and all was synced except for his contact list???? Why? How come the calendar and all went through and synced as he had it and the contacts list somehow didn't???

Not sure it's a sync problem though... because otherwise everything would have synced altogether with no exceptions. I didn't have an issue.. suddenly updated to teh new one when i didnt even ask for it probably was the microsoft insider program, but i don't mind and since i didn't even take the time to create a contacts list - as I think it should be automatic when we write an email the contact /recipient should automatically get there with names since it goes to the right person then it's because it links and associates to that person... why should I bother to even HAVE to bother having to be the one creating it because it doesn't add the name and email to the contacts list?

So, I finally decided to "upgrade" to the New Outlook and this issue hit big time. I love that I can pin my messages to the top but... not being able to open messages in a new window without double-clicking super fast or selecting the checkbox next to the message and hit shift-enter is breaking my workflow.

I also found that I can't open up email messages I have saved out to a folder on my hard drive (to keep related messages with projects that I work on). The New Outlook client says I can't do that.

Now I have to go back to the previous version and lose the ability of pinning messages because of this issue. I hope they fix this issue someday.