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
    2025-05-06T21:01:32+00:00

    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.

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  2. 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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  3. Anonymous
    2025-03-18T15:13:10+00:00

    "NEW" Outlook: I was forced into it March 17th 2025

    Settings / Mail / Message handling / Mark as read section > "Don't automatically mark items as read."

    It's one step closer but now you have to mark it read yourself. OMG! Used to be able to open in new window and that would mark it as read.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-02-27T13:18:59+00:00

    Thank you! All the new "improvements"!!!

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-01-24T10:06:19+00:00

    The lack of any ability to switch off single-click to open a message in-line is very annoying. Please can we get something done so a new message is only opened in a new window following a double-click? A single click should do nothing other than select/highlight the message.

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