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Quickly mark all deleted items as read from Deleted Items folder in Outlook

Author: Xiaoyang Last Modified: 2024-10-18

When you delete some emails from the Inbox folder without reading them, all these items that will be located in the Deleted Items folder still keep unread status. This may be annoying when you apply the search feature to look for unread emails. In this case, our Kutools for Outlook supports a useful feature - Mark (Deleted Items) As Read, it helps you to mark all deleted items in the Deleted Items folder as read with only one click.

Mark all deleted items as read from Deleted Items folder quickly

Automatically mark deleted items as read from Deleted Items folder

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Mark all deleted items as read from Deleted Items folder quickly

If multiple unread items exist in your Deleted Items folder, for marking them as read at once, please do as this:

1. Launch Outlook, and then click Kutools Plus > UtilitiesMark As Read > Mark Deleted Items As Read, see screenshot:

A screenshot showing the Mark Deleted Items As Read option on the ribbon

2. A dialog box pops up to ask you if you want to process the subfolders of the Deleted Items folder. Click Yes to mark the deleted emails as read in the subfolders of the Deleted folder, or click No to skip the subfolders.

A screenshot of the dialog box asking to process subfolders

3. Then a dialog pops out to remind you all emails in Delete Items folder have been marked as read. Click OK to close it.

A screenshot of the confirmation dialog that all deleted items have been marked as read

A screenshot showing all items in the Deleted Items folder marked as read

Note: This utility works for Deleted Items folder across all accounts.


Automatically mark deleted items as read from Deleted Items folder

If you want to mark every deleted item as read automatically without manually processing each time, this feature also can do you a favor.

1. Click Kutools Plus > UtilitiesMark As Read > Enable Mark Deleted As Read to enable this utility, see screenshot:

A screenshot showing how to enable automatic Mark Deleted Items As Read on the ribbon

2. A dialog box pops up to ask you if you want to process the subfolders of the Deleted Items folder. Click Yes to mark the deleted emails as read in the subfolders of the Deleted folder, or click No to skip the subfolders.

A screenshot showing the dialog asking to process subfolders for automatic Mark As Read feature

3. Then a dialog pops out to remind you all emails in Delete Items folder have been marked as read, click OK to close it. And from now on, the unread items will be marked as read automatically when they are deleted into Delete Items folder.

A screenshot confirming the automatic mark as read for deleted items has been enabled

If you choose Yes in the step 2, you can see the Enable Mark as Read feature will shown as this:

A screenshot showing the enabled Mark As Read feature for subfolders on the ribbon

If you choose No in the step 2, you can see the Enable Mark as Read feature will shown as this:

A screenshot showing the enabled Mark As Read feature when not including subfolders on the ribbon

Notes:

Click Kutools Plus > UtilitiesMark as Read  to turn off this feature.

This utility works for Deleted Items folder across all accounts.


Demo: Mark all deleted items as read from Deleted Items folder

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