I have lots of Outlook folders (30+) and they each get a trickle of over 200 emails a day.
Usually I scan through each folder to make sure nothing important is in there and right click on the folder and press E to 'Mark All as Read'.
This gets tedious and I want to eliminate the second step so I can just scan through my folders then press a button to mark all subfolders and folders as read at the end.
I would like to say this differs from this as I would like to know which emails are new and not have them automatically all be marked as read when they come in.
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The Search Folder tip does the work. To do this go "Folder" tab > press "New Search Folder" > on the pop window select "Unread mail" > Press OK. This will create a folder, like all your others, on the left menu (where you have Inbox, Sent Items so on), named Search Folder > Unread Mail and you can right click and "Mark all as read".
1No there isn't a single button that does this, not in the Outlook client.
You could use a search query and then select all (Ctrl - A), right-click, and then mark all as read.
0I found a way to do this: Based on the other answer of doing a search, I created a new customized search folder and selected all of my folders that I wanted to do a mass "Mark as Read" action, with a criteria of "unread". This made a new "Unread" search folder for just the targeted folders. Now I can do a single right-click and "Mark All as Read".
1follow below steps; click on search box type: isread:no next to the search box is an option which you specify the search scope (current folder, All mailboxes,...) choose the one you need once the search is done, press Ctrl+A, right click "mouse", and press read ta-da. it's done :)
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