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SOLVED: How to View Unread Messages in Outlook 2010

To avoid a major rant, let me just say that I can not think of a single good reason for Microsoft to remove the VIEW, UNREAD MESSAGES option that has existed in Outlook 2000 and 2003.  To the point, if you want to view your unread messages in Outlook 2010 simply:

  1. Click the VIEW tab in Outlook 2010
  2. Click the VIEW SETTINGS button
  3. Click the FILTER button
  4. Check the ONLY ITEMS THAT ARE box
  5. Select UNREAD from the drop down list.

Now, wasn’t that easy!?!

Outlook 2010 How to View Unread Messages

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  • AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I missed the word FILTER in his message, this makes sense.

    I can tell you that I spent about 30 minutes working through this over a few days and did not find a single useful blog or kbase article which explained it.

    Thanks!

  • Actually, David is correct.

    - 'Home' ribbon

    - 'Find' box

    - 'Filter E-mail' drop-down menu

    - Click on 'Unread'

    Then when you want to un-filter just click on the 'Close Search' button

    hope this helps

    cheers

    Brund

  • Even easy is on the 'Home' tab all the way to the right is a filter button. Click it and select 'Unread'

    • Good Day David; In 2010 the UNREAD/READ button only marks the current message as READ or UNREAD; it does not set a filter to only view the UNREAD items.

      If you have any other ideas on the topic, I would love to hear them. Thanks for the comments.

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Ian Matthews
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12 years ago

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