Your the man THANKS, can't believe I missed that.



"Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
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I'm not 100% sure since it's been a while since I used OL2000 but see if
the options are he Tools menu Options Other tab Click Preview
Pane

"HotRod" wrote in message
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I'm using Outlook 2000 and was wondering if it is possible to mark a
message as read after it has been clicked on for x # of seconds? I read
all of my emails at the bottm of the split window not by opening them???