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

on my outlook, this is how i did it, click the VIEW tab, go over to layout and click on reading pane, then down to options, remove the tick where it says mark item as read when selection changes.

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.

Agree with the others, I was trying to turn off one click open and finally did a search for it to find this thread. I was unhappy when I Could not move the app bar to the bottom of the page like I could before but this single click open is driving me nuts and Think I will go back to the old version.

I single click to highlight and improve the contrast so I can see the objects better, this trend to muted displays/fonts in the MS apps makes it harder for me to see things at a glance with my old man eyes.

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.