How to Disable single click to open email in New Outlook?

Question

In New Outlook, it opens an email when I click on it.

I want to change the setting to double-click. Please help.

Answer 1

Thank You --

Microsoft People are such idiots sometimes, I think they enable things just to annoy customers.

Answer 2

I reiterate the comments made by others.

We've had 25 years of muscle memory in Outlook and File Explorer where single click is "select" and double-click is "use". Why is it so hard to copy the established design philosophy?

Answer 3

These developers have never actually worked in an office and are clueless.

Answer 4

same here

Answer 5

Hello Abhay,

Welcome to the Microsoft Community. I am a Microsoft user like you, I hope you are doing well.

To disable a single click to open email in New Outlook, you must change the reading pane settings in your Outlook options. Here are the steps you can follow:

• Sign in to your Outlook account using your email address and password.

• At the top of the page, select Settings and choose View all Outlook settings.

• In the Settings pan, go to Layout and select the Reading pane under Maile.

• Under Mark as read, uncheck the option Single click to open items.

• Click Save to apply the changes.

I hope this helps you disable a single click to open the email in New Outlook.

This answer is wrong and should be deleted. There is no such setting as 'Single click to open items".