You can't stop it from going there, but you can keep it from being opened.
View | Layout. Uncheck the Preview Pane, or Customize Toolbar and add the
Preview Pane button to the toolbar to toggle it off and on.
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Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Harvey" wrote in message
news:4FM4g.88236$P01.80464@pd7tw3no...
stop oe from going to the first unred message when clicking on "inbox"