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How to automatically mark the email as read while in preview in Outlook?

Author: Siluvia Last Modified: 2024-07-26

By default, Outlook won’t mark an email message as read until you select another message. You will find out when you press the Delete key to remove a message you just received while previewing it in the reading pane, that the message you have deleted is still marked as unread in the Deleted Item folder. That may cause inconvenience for you. If you want to automatically mark email as read while in preview in Outlook, please look at the following tutorial.

Automatically mark the email as read while in preview in Outlook

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You can mark email as read automatically while in preview in Outlook.

1. Please click File > Options. See screenshot:

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2. In the Outlook Options dialog, click Advanced on the left pane. And then click Reading Pane under Outlook Panes.

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3. In the Reading Pane dialog, please check the Mark items as read when viewed in the Reading Pane box. And then click OK to close it. See screenshot:

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Note: In the Wait seconds before marking item as read field, enter a certain time in the box.

4. When it returns to the previous dialog, click OK to finish the whole settings.


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