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How to view next unread message in Outlook?

Author Siluvia Last modified

In many cases, your Outlook email folder might mix the read emails with the unread emails. As usual, when you finish reading an unread email, you need to close this message window and skip to find the other unread one in the email folder. In this tutorial, we will show you a little trick for easily viewing the next unread message in Outlook.

View next unread message in Outlook


View next unread message in Outlook

For viewing next unread message in Outlook, please do as follows.

1. Get into the email folder which you want to read the unread email messages inside.

2. Open an email message. In the message window, right click the "Quick Access Toolbar", and then click "Customize Quick Access Toolbar" in the right-clicking menu.

2. In the "Outlook Options" dialog box, you need to:

1). Select "All Commands" in the "Choose commands from" drop-down list;

2). Scroll down to select "Next Unread Item" in the list box;

3). Click the "Add" button;

4). Then click the "OK" button.

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3. Then you can see a button called "Next Unread Item" shows on the "Quick Access Toolbar" in the "Message" window.

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Click on this button then you will get into the next unread message window immediately. After finishing reading all the unread messages, the window will be closed when you click the "Next Unread Item" button.


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