How to Disable single click to open email in New Outlook?

What is happening here is, when the reading pane view is turned off and you single click the message, Outlook brings up the view of the message as full view instead of bringing the view to the right or bottom when you have it turned on.

What we want is the Reading Pane to be turned off and nothing to happen when you single click.

Also, here is the image from the instruction to turn of Mark as Read. There isn't Mark as Read here to uncheck. Even if there were you couldn't uncheck it because you would have to choose another option. Can you please give images on the fix for this and not just text. It would help solve this.

When you have Reading Pane hidden your message view does the below when you single click it. We do not want this behavior.

Hello Abhay,

Welcome to the Microsoft Community. I am a Microsoft user like you, I hope you are doing well.

To disable a single click to open email in New Outlook, you must change the reading pane settings in your Outlook options. Here are the steps you can follow:

• Sign in to your Outlook account using your email address and password.

• At the top of the page, select Settings and choose View all Outlook settings.

• In the Settings pan, go to Layout and select the Reading pane under Maile.

• Under Mark as read, uncheck the option Single click to open items.

• Click Save to apply the changes.

I hope this helps you disable a single click to open the email in New Outlook.

I have this same problem.... Outlook 365 is opening messages with a single click, and I do not want that.

I've already turned off the toggle for New Outlook to revert, but the single click open is still happening.

I tried following your instructions and they aren't correct.

In my case to find anything close to what you said, I've opened SETTINGS - MAIL - MESSAGE HANDLING - there is a MARK AS READ section but it doesn't have any settings for opening with single click.

How do we disable this and go back to double click required to open?

Have the same issue, did a lot of research, as of now, there are no solutions.

How to live with this problem:

• It looks like this is a bad "How to use" explanation...
• Probably, the Team responsible for this UI/UX imagined that we would click the "select box" when trying to select an e-mail.
• By clicking in the selection box you don't open the email, just select it.
• You can get used to placing your click on this selection to avoid "Single Click Open"

This is the second time I give "New Outlook" a try and decide to back to old outlook due to the lack of basic features / settings. I recommend the same + give a feedback to Microsoft.

I finally got mine fixed in the new version!!!

1. File > Options > Advanced
2. Under Outlook panes, select Reading Pane.
3. Uncheck the box Mark item as read when the selection changes.
4. Check the box Mark items as read when viewed in the Reading Pane.

Can't find that setting.