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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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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!!
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!
Finally!!!!
Thank you
I followed the instructions provided by Shawn Fennell, but under the Reading Pane Options I did not have the option "Single click to open items" I clicked the option "Always preview messages". That is how I was able to turn off Single Click to Open Items and go back to double click to open an email.
Hope this helps.
That helped me fix the issue in the old Outlook except in the reading pane options, the only thing that I have checked is the "Mark items as read when viewed in the Reading Pane set to the default 3 seconds.
Thanks much!