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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, angela68 asked:

| I have just started using Microsoft Outlook and when I used Outlook
| Express - there was an option that you could use so an email didn't
| open just by sitting on it - you actually had to open it to mark as
| read
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| Can you do this in Microsoft Outlook?