In Outlook, you can change an email’s status to Read or Unread. You can also mark an email as Read automatically. This is a quick way to clean up your inbox quickly.
How to mark an email message as Read in Outlook
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To set the Read Status in Outlook, follow the methods below.
- Launch Outlook
- Locate the message
- Right-click the message
- Select Marked as Read
- The status for the message is set as Read.
Change Mark Email as a Reading setting in Outlook
- Launch Outlook.
- Locate a message in your inbox.
- Right-click the message and Select Marked as Read in the context menu.
- The message is marked as Read.
- There is another method to mark a single message as Read.
- To mark a message as read or unread, click the message and then go to the Home tab. In the Tags group, click Unread or Read.
- The message will be marked as Read.
- To mark multiple messages as read in a folder, press Crtl-A to select them all, then right-click and select Mark as Read.
- You can also set the message as read automatically. To do this procedure, follow the steps below.
- Go to the View tab and click the Reading Panedrop-down arrow in the Layout
- In the drop-down menu, select Options.
- A Reading Pane dialog box will pop up.
Inside the dialog box, you can select the check box for “Marked items as read when viewed in Reading Pane.”
- You can also set how long you want to wait for messages to be marked as Read.
- Then OK.
- If you click an unread message, it will be marked as Read; five seconds later, it will be marked as Read.
- There is yet another method to mark the message as read automatically.
- Click the File
- On the BackstageView, click Option.
An options dialog box for Outlook will open; click “Advanced” on the left in the dialog box.
On the Advanced page under the section Outlook Panes, click the Reading pane button.
A Reading Pane dialog box will appear.
Inside the dialog box, the checkbox for Marked items as Read when viewed in Reading Pane can be clicked.
- You can also set how long you want to wait for messages to be marked as Read.
- Then OK.
- Then click OKfor the Outlook Options dialog box.
- We hope this tutorial helps you understand how to mark an email message as Read in Outlook.
Hello, My name is Shari & I am a writer for the ‘Outlook AppIns’ blog. I’m a CSIT graduate & I’ve been working in the IT industry for 3 years.