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
    2024-09-19T17:23:02+00:00

    *Insert heavily worded complaint with expletives*

    How is this not fixed yet? Once again, I return to the previous version. Thanks for making me feel old and out of touch. Now get off my lawn! :P

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-09-20T16:53:23+00:00

    Single click still opens a new email window instead of just in the reading pane. I've been trying to change this for months. None of the "fixes" listed in this thread are correct. Microsoft - there has to be an easy fix for this.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-10-16T17:58:45+00:00

    <groan>

    MS: just give thus the option to turn-off single-click!

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-10-24T14:50:31+00:00

    That is not how my settings look in the new outlook "desktop app"

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-11-26T00:20:00+00:00

    I finally got mine fixed in the new version!!!

    1. File > Options > Advanced
    2. Under Outlook panes, select Reading Pane.
    3. Uncheck the box Mark item as read when the selection changes.
    4. Check the box Mark items as read when viewed in the Reading Pane.

    I do not have a File option anywhere.

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