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.

I did not find this setting eighter. It's really anoying, how do people use this?

I used the following approach as workaround:

1. Go to Settings >> Mail >> Layout >>
2. Under the Reading pane options, select "At the bottom"
3. Save and return back to email list window. Reading pane at the bottom half will appear.
4. Drag the Reading Pane border marker (top-right) to reduce the size of the pane to minimum possible.
5. Now the single click will not open any email. Whereas double click will open the email in new window.

Same as the rest, this option does not exist in the new outlook. I understand this new app is basically a ported webapp version of the online one; but the fact that this is a desktop experience should par with a expected desktop behaviour IMO. Let us know where we can submit a feature request to enable a "Doble Click to open items". I think this way we can eventually blend both options for end users to select and personalize their experience.

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.

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.