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In New Outlook, it opens an email when I click on it.
I want to change the setting to double-click. Please help.
Using New Outlook on Windows for personal email, calendar, and contact management
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Thank you, this has been so frustrating, closing an email, then also closed outlook as a whole with this 1 click rubbish!
I want to clarify that most of the people here, don't want to use the reading pane. They want a double click to open the email in a new window, as it has in previous releases. Reading pane is not a solution so please stop suggesting anything involving it.
The only options I see in View-->Reading Pane are:
It's still dumb to tie the click to open an email to reading pane options anyway; some of us don't use the reading pane.
Furthermore, I don't know a single soul who uses a single click to open anything. Double Click = Open since before Windows even used a mouse & we were all using a Mac Plus or SE with the 8" black & white screen. Someone at Microsoft needs to get his or her **** together.
The major issue here is that I believe that you assumed that everyone is using an Office 365/Exchange Online account. It is true, but there are other email providers other than Microsoft.
I can do this with my work account using the new Outlook, but it is an Exchange Online account, but can't with my personal account (IMAP).
How do we turn this off if NOT using a Microsoft email service?
Having the same issue, and not able to turn this option for a single-click. Posting reply to bump this back to the top.
Each rendition of the new outlook is getting better, but I'm kind of getting tired of having to revert back to the old version each time I hit a snag, that did exist in the older versions, but doesn't exist (intentionally removed?) in the new version.
James