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Mattias
Hi,
I love the preview pane in Outlook (I'm currently on 2007, but my question
applies to 2003), it saves a lot of mouse clicks.
However, I find it very annoying that the program sometimes (such as upon
start up and shifting to the calender and back) automatically selects an
e-mail (i.e. the top most) for preview without me actually clicking on it. If
I don't actually take the time to read it at that point the program will set
to 'read' anyways.
In an earlier attempt to deal with my issue, I tried using a scripting
program (Hotkeys) to send a bunch of "arrow up" on the program (Outlook
2003) during start-up to make it always select the very top row of the inbox
(which is "-Today" and shows an empty preview pane). But that only worked to
some 98% and does not help at all when going to calender and back.
Of course, I could tell Outlook to not mark mail as "read" until I actually
open them, but then the benefits of the preview would be sort of lost.
I wounder if there is a setting or maybe a macro script out there that would
execute on startup and on pane shifting that would help the program not
select any un-read mail for preview on it's own.
I get around in VB as from within Excel but I'm just completely lost on how
to deal with Outlook.
Thanks,
Mattias
I love the preview pane in Outlook (I'm currently on 2007, but my question
applies to 2003), it saves a lot of mouse clicks.
However, I find it very annoying that the program sometimes (such as upon
start up and shifting to the calender and back) automatically selects an
e-mail (i.e. the top most) for preview without me actually clicking on it. If
I don't actually take the time to read it at that point the program will set
to 'read' anyways.
In an earlier attempt to deal with my issue, I tried using a scripting
program (Hotkeys) to send a bunch of "arrow up" on the program (Outlook
2003) during start-up to make it always select the very top row of the inbox
(which is "-Today" and shows an empty preview pane). But that only worked to
some 98% and does not help at all when going to calender and back.
Of course, I could tell Outlook to not mark mail as "read" until I actually
open them, but then the benefits of the preview would be sort of lost.
I wounder if there is a setting or maybe a macro script out there that would
execute on startup and on pane shifting that would help the program not
select any un-read mail for preview on it's own.
I get around in VB as from within Excel but I'm just completely lost on how
to deal with Outlook.
Thanks,
Mattias