We get used to Microsoft Outlook 2010 default setup to automatically mark items as read after a while. But sometimes (noone knows why and when) it stops doing it and you have a lot of unread items in your inbox even though you have opened them many times. But don’t go through the roof – you can quickly remedy this situation.

1. To change it, go to Backstage view by clicking File in the top left corner in Outlook.
2. Click Options and the Outlook options window will pop up.
3. Select Mail and then click Reading pane.
4. Check the box Mark items as read when viewed in the reading pane and setup time to 0 seconds.
5. Click Ok and that is all.

If you have Outlook 2007, this Outlook Geek article will solve your issue.

Tags: mark as read, mark as unread, outlook emails

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