Check your VIEW for a FILTERED VIEW.

Select VIEW on your Outlook menu.
Select ARRANGE BY
Select CURRENT VIEW
Then be sure that the MESSAGES view is selected.

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Nikki Peterson

"Pat" wrote in message ...

If I open an email and want to respond at a later time; when I close it, it
disappears. It is not in my deleted files. This is something new in the last
week or so.