Hi again, J. I did a little searching. I believe that I discovered how to stop Outlook from marking my items as read even though all I do is highlight them, not open them. I did the following: On the Tools menu, click Options, and then control tab over to Other. Tab down to the Preview Pane button and enter. Then tab down to "Mark items as read when selection changes" and uncheck this. Tab down and enter on Okay and then Tab down to okay once more. This seemed to have done the trick. I can scroll all over the place now and my unread items remain marked as unread. Glad that mystery is solved. Chris Feist - The one and only! -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of J Dumes Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2005 1:28 AM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: SADLY, OUTLOOK HAS SOMETHING MISSING! cool! now we know the cause. sheesh, I just can't find that option though. sorry. I've stumbled across it before but when you need to find it poof it's hiding somewhere else. J -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Chris Feist Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 7:55 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: SADLY, OUTLOOK HAS SOMETHING MISSING! Hi J. You know what? That is exactly what has been happening. I just tested your theory and you were absolutely correct. I've been inadvertently highlighting my E-mail thus turning all my unread messages in to read messages. I'll have to look for this setting in Outlook as well and see if I can change it from doing this. Thanks so much for pointing this out. If I can't, it's no bigg deal, actually. Chris Feist - The one and only! -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of J Dumes Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2005 12:55 AM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: SADLY, OUTLOOK HAS SOMETHING MISSING! If all of my messages are read then the status line only shows the number of items. There is a setting in outlook that will mark a message as read if you were highlighted on it but hadn't even opened it yet. maybe you're scrolling through your messages or something and it's marking them as being read so your status line no longer shows unread messages? I've looked and looked but can't fine that option now. I know I've seen it before though. J -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Chris Feist Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 6:56 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: SADLY, OUTLOOK HAS SOMETHING MISSING! That confirms it. There must be something wacky with my Outlook settings or something. It only tells me how many items there are. Very strange. Chris Feist - The one and only! -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of J Dumes Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 11:34 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: SADLY, OUTLOOK HAS SOMETHING MISSING! Well that would be correct then. I use MS outlook 2000 on one machine and MS outlook 2002 on another machine. On both machines my status line reads x number of items and x number unread. J -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of G B Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 5:33 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: SADLY, OUTLOOK HAS SOMETHING MISSING! For me in ms outlook when I hit insert+num pad 3 it reads 2 messages and = 1 unread when I had 2 messages and only read 1 -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On = Behalf Of Chris Feist Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 17:25 To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: SADLY, OUTLOOK HAS SOMETHING MISSING! For me, the status line only announces how many items I have in my In Box and not how many are unread. This is in Outlook, though, and not Outlook Express. I wonder if that could be the difference. Chris Feist - The one and only! =20 -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of J Dumes Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 8:45 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: SADLY, OUTLOOK HAS SOMETHING MISSING! When I read the status line it tells me how many items, then how many unread. -----Original Message----- From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of jim grimsby Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 3:07 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: SADLY, OUTLOOK HAS SOMETHING MISSING! If you needed a count of how many unread messages (separate from how many total messages), I guess you would have to change your current view to just unread messages, get the count I described, then if you needed to, go back to the view showing all messages. I have mine sorted by subject and my show six items 5 unread. So I am not sure why a user would have to do what you describe above. =3D20 -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. 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