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How to Disable single click to open email in New Outlook?
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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.
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Anonymous
2025-05-06T09:37:50+00:00 -
Anonymous
2025-05-01T08:39:21+00:00 Probably messes up Microsoft's user-behaviour analytics though :-) They'll be getting reports that users choose to turn on the reading pane, when we are only doing it to get rid of the one-click behaviour and would really rather not have than pane either!
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Anonymous
2025-04-30T23:15:39+00:00 This worked!! As much as I do not like to have a reading pane, I can live with it on the bottom and shrunk, I cannot function with the single click opening messages.
Thank You!!
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Anonymous
2025-04-15T18:26:38+00:00 I have not found a solution to this aggravating issue, but I did discover an optional workaround:
Press the CNTRL key and click on the email - it will then check the box and highlight it instead of opening the email. Essentially it works like the old Outlook when using the CNTRL key to select several emails at a time.
Not ideal, but thought I'd share. Sorry in advance if someone shared this already.
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Anonymous
2025-04-04T15:38:00+00:00 This seems to the best of all bad options. I have no interest in having a reading pane but I cannot live with an email opening upon a single click. MSFT really needs to fix this issue.