You may know already, but few of my friends facing the below
confusion , so thought of sharing with you.
When quickly going through my emails, often we haven’t
actually really read the emails but Outlook already marks them as read. This is
quite confusing unless we mark them as unread again which takes more time and
defeats the purpose of quickly going through our emails.
The options for how and when Outlook should mark emails as
read can be found in;
Outlook 2007 and previous
Tools-> Options…-> tab Other-> button Reading Pane…
Outlook 2010, Outlook 2013 and Outlook 2016
tab View-> Reading Pane-> Options…
The default is set to mark items as read when you select
another email. When you disable this option, all mails remain as unread unless
you manually mark it as read or double click the message to open it in its own
window.
Once you uncheck “mark
items as read when selection changes”, the mail will change to read only when
you double click and open.
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