Outlook 2010- Deleting an Email and having the next one open in its place

[Larry B]

This was hard to describe in a title form. What I mean is that if I open an
email into its own window, is there anyway to delete that email and have the
next email open in its place? I know that the Preview Pane works that way,
but the Pane is not a great way to view an email fully and I don't like to
use it much.

Thanks

 

[VanguardLH]

This was hard to describe in a title form. What I mean is that if I open an
email into its own window, is there anyway to delete that email and have the
next email open in its place? I know that the Preview Pane works that way,
but the Pane is not a great way to view an email fully and I don't like to
use it much.

If you get most of your e-mails from friends and family then typically
you trust those enough to open them and read them (unless, of course,
some joker you once knew or at work keeps sending you the joke-of-the-
day and who won't take you off their mailing list so you have to
blacklist them). Otherwise, if most of your e-mails are from unknown or
untrusted senders then you might want to enable the Auto-Preview mode in
the Preview Pane. This will show the first few lines of each e-mail but
as plain text. No worry about nasties buried in an HTML-formatted
e-mail or using Outlook as an infection vector to utilize some rendering
vulnerability in an OS library for images. You see the e-mails with a
short text-only blurb for each one that shows you what is their content.

http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/locatefeature.htm

This shows how to use the various menus in several versions of Outlook.
You want to enable the AutoPreview mode if you want to see the plain-
text blurb for each e-mail to let you know what's in it before you
select or open it. Even if not for security or avoiding spam or
unwanted e-mails, AutoPreview can let you determine which are the more
important messages that YOU want to read and which to immediately delete
without bothering to read the rest of an e-mail.

If most of your e-mails comes from wanted sources (family, friends,
coworkers, etc) then AutoPreview would probably be a nuisance and you'll
likely just want to click on their e-mail to see it in the Preview pane.
If most of your e-mails come from unknown sources then AutoPreview lets
you preview what they have inside before you even select them.

I'm not sure why you're having difficulties in the Preview pane. If you
delete an item, the next one gets highlighted but which is the "next"
one is chosen by you in the preferences you configure in Outlook. In
OL2003, for example, Tools -> Options -> Preferences tab -> E-mail
Options, you chose the selection for "After moving or deleting an open
item" which could be "open next item", "open previous item", or "return
to inbox". As to what constitutes next and previous depends on how you
chose to sort the items in the message list. Next and Previous are
relative in the list to the item currently selected.

http://www.msoutlook.info/question/217

 

[Larry B]

If you get most of your e-mails from friends and family then typically
you trust those enough to open them and read them (unless, of course,
some joker you once knew or at work keeps sending you the joke-of-the-
day and who won't take you off their mailing list so you have to
blacklist them). Otherwise, if most of your e-mails are from unknown or
untrusted senders then you might want to enable the Auto-Preview mode in
the Preview Pane. This will show the first few lines of each e-mail but
as plain text. No worry about nasties buried in an HTML-formatted
e-mail or using Outlook as an infection vector to utilize some rendering
vulnerability in an OS library for images. You see the e-mails with a
short text-only blurb for each one that shows you what is their content.

http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/locatefeature.htm

This shows how to use the various menus in several versions of Outlook.
You want to enable the AutoPreview mode if you want to see the plain-
text blurb for each e-mail to let you know what's in it before you
select or open it. Even if not for security or avoiding spam or
unwanted e-mails, AutoPreview can let you determine which are the more
important messages that YOU want to read and which to immediately delete
without bothering to read the rest of an e-mail.

If most of your e-mails comes from wanted sources (family, friends,
coworkers, etc) then AutoPreview would probably be a nuisance and you'll
likely just want to click on their e-mail to see it in the Preview pane.
If most of your e-mails come from unknown sources then AutoPreview lets
you preview what they have inside before you even select them.

I'm not sure why you're having difficulties in the Preview pane. If you
delete an item, the next one gets highlighted but which is the "next"
one is chosen by you in the preferences you configure in Outlook. In
OL2003, for example, Tools -> Options -> Preferences tab -> E-mail
Options, you chose the selection for "After moving or deleting an open
item" which could be "open next item", "open previous item", or "return
to inbox". As to what constitutes next and previous depends on how you
chose to sort the items in the message list. Next and Previous are
relative in the list to the item currently selected.

http://www.msoutlook.info/question/217

Perfect. Thanks for the link and info. It was a great help.