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I like to open unread emails in a new window vs the email window. It sometimes works by double clicking but not very often. Is there a trick I'm missing?
Using Classic Outlook on Windows for personal email, calendar, and contact management
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When I first open the New Outlook, doubling clicking an e-mail does open the message in a new window, however this only works for the 1st e-mail, if I try and do this for another e-mail, it stays within the main Outlook window. The app can clearly do it, however there must be a bug which stops it working after the 1st e-mail
Hi Ashraf,
there's a trick to solve this issue: first to ensure enable 'Reading Pane' ON, then it's fine to open email in separate window when double click on the subject.
Reading pane marks items as read, which haven't been opened yet. It is very important to me to know what I have read or not. I am not looking for a workaround, I am looking for MS to fix the beg/feature. The new Outlook is obviously written for Samsung and Apple tablets, not for "Windows".
Indeed that works, thanks for the hint. I don't like using the reading pane as it takes up too much real estate in my view. However I'll use this workaround until Microsoft fixes this bug. Submitted a strongly worded suggestion as well.