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

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.

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.

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.

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

I want to use the new version of Outlook however they need to add this option in as I don't like the fact the email opens in outlook when you click on it.

Hoping Microsoft put this feature back in as we are going to need this for people to adopt this new version.

Frustrating I can't get on with the new outlook as the copilot stuff looks good and doesn't work well with the old outlook.

Come on Microsoft put this feature back in please.