JeffreyBee wrote:

I have read all of the message threads pertaining to unread calendar
items and how to mark them as read or how to find unread calendar
items using Advanced Find. Thank you.

My question is whether there is a way to turn off this feature in
Outlook so it does not display a number in parenthesis next to the
calendar folder?

There is no where you can go to turn this feature off. Outlook will always
show you either the number of unread items in a folder or the total number
of items in it.
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Brian Tillman