I am having an issue with Outlook 2007. Whenever I get a brand new message, it takes a Single click to open it (it is usually a double click). When the messages is no longer new, it requires a double click to open it.

I have been unable to find an option in Outlook itself to modify this, and on-line answers only point to changing my actual mouse from single to double click. My mouse works fine outside of Outlook, as far as single/double clicking is concerned...any ideas??? thank you for your time and effort.

is the message highlighted in blue when you single click and gray or white
when you double click? do you have any addins installed?

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"goosecrossing" wrote in message
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I am having an issue with Outlook 2007. Whenever I get a brand new
message, it takes a Single click to open it (it is usually a double
click). When the messages is no longer new, it requires a double click
to open it.

I have been unable to find an option in Outlook itself to modify this,
and on-line answers only point to changing my actual mouse from single
to double click. My mouse works fine outside of Outlook, as far as
single/double clicking is concerned...any ideas??? thank you for your
time and effort.




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goosecrossing

The message looks like a normal incoming/new message...bold black writing, until you single click it once, the window opens up full screen, afterwards...it is no longer bold (the message is now read instead of unread)...no add-ins that I know of...

Thank you for the response

I had the same issue in Outlook 2002. I closed outlook, ran scanpst.exe (run
a search on your hard drive to find it, it should be there) on the personal
folder file *.pst in use, which repaired the error. I also compacted the pst
file, which I don't think was what helped, but it may have been. Outlook is
now functioning normally.

Sophia Kelly
Technology Tailoring
www.sophiakelly.ca

"goosecrossing" wrote:


I am having an issue with Outlook 2007. Whenever I get a brand new
message, it takes a Single click to open it (it is usually a double
click). When the messages is no longer new, it requires a double click
to open it.

I have been unable to find an option in Outlook itself to modify this,
and on-line answers only point to changing my actual mouse from single
to double click. My mouse works fine outside of Outlook, as far as
single/double clicking is concerned...any ideas??? thank you for your
time and effort.




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goosecrossing

[quote=goosecrossing;291419]I am having an issue with Outlook 2007. Whenever I get a brand new message, it takes a Single click to open it (it is usually a double click). When the messages is no longer new, it requires a double click to open it. [quote]

Goosecrossing,

Did you solve your problem? I am suddenly having the same problem in Outlook 2007. I'm running Window 7 Home Premium on an HP G71 notebook. I searched for the scan file suggested to you but could not find it.

I can work around this but it is a pain and not the original setup.