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Mark emails as read and unread using keyboard shortcuts
As you scroll through your Outlook inbox you can use keyboard shortcuts to mark emails as read or unread. This works in both the new and old (‘Classic’) versions of Outlook.
You need to select an email in your inbox so it’s highlighted in blue ( 1 in our screenshot). Its sender and subject line will be in bold 2 , indicating it hasn’t been read. Pressing Ctrl+Q will mark it as read, and the words inside will lose their bold formatting. This has the same effect as hovering your mouse over the email and clicking the envelope icon that appears 3 . Pressing Ctrl+U marks an email as unread and restores the bold formatting.