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How to auto preview unread messages in Outlook?

Author Siluvia Last modified

After enabling the auto preview feature in Outlook, you can see the first three lines of the email content displaying in the mail list of current email folder. You can enable the auto preview not only for all items, but also for all unread items in your selected folder. In this tutorial, we will show you how to auto preview unread messages in Outlook in details.

Auto preview unread messages in Outlook 2013

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Auto preview unread messages in Outlook 2013

In Outlook 2013, the auto preview unread items function is removed. For auto previewing the unread messages, there is a trick for you.

1. Get into the email folder which the unread emails are staying.

2. Click View > Message Preview > 3 Line to enable the auto preview function. See screenshot:

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3. And a prompt box will pop out to remind you that you can apply this preview setting to all mailboxes or current folder, choose your need option, see screenshot:

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4. Then click Unread above the mail list to filter all unread messages out.

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Then you can see all unread emails are listed out with three lines auto preview.

Note: This method is applied to all emails both read and unread messages.


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