How to delete all unread emails in Outlook?

You can find out all unread emails with the "Instant Search" feature in Outlook, select all search results, and then delete them easily.

1. In the "Mail "view, click to open the mail folder you will delete all unread emails from.

2. Press "Ctrl" + "E "keys simultaneously to activate the" Search Tools", and then click "Search" > "Unread". See screenshot:

Note: You can also change the search scope in the "Scope" group on the" Search" tab.

3. Now all unread emails are found out and listed in the mail list. Select the first search result in the mail list, and then press the "Ctrl "+" Shift" + "End "keys to select all search results.

4. Press the "Delete" key to remove all found unread emails.

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Sometimes, you may delete spam emails directly before reading them. However, these emails keep unread status in the Deleted Items folder. It will be boring to show the number of unread items besides the folder on the Folder pane. Here, Kutools for Outlook released a "Mark (Deleted) As Read" feature to:

You can also find out all unread emails with the "Filter Email" feature in Outlook, and then easily delete all filtered out unread emails.

1. In the "Mail" view, click to open the mail folder where you need to delete all unread emails.

2. Go ahead to click "Home" > "Filter Email" > "Unread".

And now all unread emails have been filtered out in the current mail folder.
Note: You can also change the filtering scope within the" Scope" group on the" Search "tab.

3. Select the first filtered out unread email, next press the "Ctrl" + "Shift" + "End" keys to select all unread emails, and finally click the "Delete" key.

And now all unread emails are removed from the specified filtering scope.

You can also collects all unread emails within a search folder, and then remove all unread emails at ease from the search folder.

1. Select the email account where you will remove unread emails from, and click "Folder" > "New Search Folder". See screenshot:

2. In the opening "New Search Folder" dialog box, click to select the" Unread mail "option, and click the" OK "button. See screenshot:

An unread search folder has been created and added on the "Navigation" pane. All unread emails will display in the unread search folder automatically.

3. Click to open the unread search folder, and select all unread emails in the mail list. See screenshot:

Note: There are two ways to select all emails in the mail list:
(1) Click any one of emails in the mail list, and then pressing the "Ctrl" + "A" keys at the same time;
(2) Click the first email in the mail list, and then press the "Ctrl" + "Shift" + "End" keys simultaneously.

4. Press the "Delete" key to remove all selected emails.

And now all unread emails are removed from the Inbox folder immediately.

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