By default, Outlook will mark any email you open as read, even if its only open for a fraction of a second. Now, unless you’re the supreme master of speed reading, chances are you won’t be able to read through them faster than you can click them, so I have a fix for ya! Outlook has a setting in the options menu that will allow you to add a delay to how long it takes to mark your messages as read. Once you have it set, Outlook will wait for the allotted amount of time before automatically marking the email as read. Read on to learn how to set this up.
How To Add A Delay To Messages Being Marked As Read In Outlook 2010
1. In Microsoft Outlook 2010 Click the File tab, and then from the menu Click Options. Note: – For Outlook 2007 – Tools, Options, Other, Reading Pane to adjust Mark as read settings
2. In the Options window, Click Mail, then scroll down to Outlook Panes and Click Reading Pane
3. Check the box for Mark items as read when viewed in the Reading Pane, then Enter the Number of Seconds you would like Outlook 2010 to wait before marking your email as read. Keep in mind this number applies to all emails opened from now on regardless of their size, so aim for the average time it takes you to read your emails.
Now whenever you read an email, Outlook will wait for you to have that email open for X seconds before marking it as read. If there are emails that you have sitting around that you want to quickly Mark as Read, you can Right-Click any email and then Select Mark as Read. This process works to Mark mail Unread too. To mark multiple messages use Shift+Click or Ctrl+Click to select all of the ones you want to do in one batch.
Find it? So you used to right click on the calendar and mark items as read? What would this do? Prevent a meeting reminder? You should post a screenshot on this in the Forum. https://www.groovypost.com/forum/ Thanks 10 Shared calendars… yup… that would be VERY handy! Playing around in 2010, I can’t find the option. I’ll keep looking. Let me know if you find it. That would be a good tip! In previous outlook versions, CTRL-Q worked, as did right click “mark as read”. Both as missing now. I checked all the various options/properties and can not find any parameters to chage this. I was checking the MS technet forums, and a few users have reported the same problem (missing feature) there with no resolution. Goscho – Are you saying that you are running Outlook 2010 and are in fact able to bring up a calendar folder in list view and use CTRL-Q (and actually have it change the item status from unread to read) ? If so, are you in an exchange environment? Which OS are you running? (I am running Win7 x64). Thanks! I hope this works for you! Cheers File / Options/ Mail/ Outlook panes Reading Pane Untick Mark Items as read when viewed in the Reading Pane. Untick Mark item as read when selection changes Optional have Single key reading using the space bar cheers, chookchooks.com My problem was that if you read an email in your in box then move it to a folder, it did not register as read. So you had to go back to that folder and click on the email, wait 5 seconds, then hit the down arrow to get it marked as read. Painful. With your post I now configured emails as read when viewed and shortened the timeout to 2 secs. Comment Name * Email *
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