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

Anonymous
2024-02-18T07:41:15+00:00

In New Outlook, it opens an email when I click on it.

I want to change the setting to double-click. Please help.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-02-20T19:00:42+00:00

    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?

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-02-18T14:56:03+00:00

    Can't find that setting.

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