If you want to control when an email gets marked as read based on viewing it in preview pane, that option is in Settings on the General Page. This controls your preview pane and lets you choose to have it on the bottom, on the side, or off. Once you find it, click the circle next to вЂњEnable,вЂќ scroll to the bottom and click вЂњSave Changes.вЂќ Back in your inbox, you now have a nifty little icon next to the gear icon up in the top right-hand corner. Go to the gear icon in the upper right-hand corner of the screen, click on it and select вЂњSettings.вЂќ At the top of the page you will see labels for different pages of settings, click on вЂњLabs.вЂќ Scroll down to find the item called вЂњPreview Pane.вЂќ It might just be easiest to search for it (Ctrl+F in your browser). If you love that feature, then letвЂ™s turn it on.

Turn on Preview Pane вЂ“ One of the hardest things to adjust to using Gmail was the lack of a preview pane.

Now each individual email appears just by itself. Click the circle next to вЂњConversation view off ,вЂќ scroll to the bottom of the page and click вЂњSave Changes.вЂќ All done. Go to the gear icon in the upper right-hand corner of the screen, click on it and select вЂњSettings.вЂќ Look down the page for вЂњConversation View,вЂќ it is the 8th item on the page. But, I completely understand how it can be very confusing for an Outlook user вЂ“ so just shut it off.

Turn off conversation view вЂ“ As a seasoned Gmail user, I have grown to love conversation view you know, where all emails with the same subject are grouped together.

So, from one recovering Outlook user to another, let me help youВ so you feel more at home and stop cursing Google. Gah! WhatвЂ™s a girl to do? Well, besides secretly using Outlook for awhile, I learned to use another webmail program and then when changing computers and email providers at home, I grudgingly switched to Gmail. In fact, that company officially didnвЂ™t even allow Outlook. Then one day, I went to work for a company that didnвЂ™t use Outlook. I used it for years and years, I knew every setting, every hot key вЂ“ I was a productivity machine using it to deal with all my email. Once upon a time, I was an Outlook-fanatic.

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