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

same here

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.

This answer is wrong and should be deleted. There is no such setting as 'Single click to open items".

It's impossible to find what you described !

Can you post screen shots with different steps ?

I'm not able to find "the option Single click to open items" in my settings...

This is so annoying.

All I want to do is double click an email and it opens in reading pane, NOT in a new window!!!!

This has only just started happening for me. My wifes Hotmail works as it used to!

Must be a simple fix out there.

Correct, which is why I said that post should be deleted - and in fact it did end up getting deleted after I replied. The option "Single click to open items" does NOT exist. There is no way to make the new outlook work like the old. I reverted back.