Windows 10: Windows 10 Mail - hiding the reading pane

How do you hide the reading pane in the Win10 mail app..?


note: not talking about the Outlook office app!

:)

 

Reading Pane in Mail

When I left click on it my reading pane turns off.
I can also shrink mail APP from right side so it just shows list of messages without reading pane.

 

how to turn off the read pane in Mail of Windows 10?

Hello Chgvan0298,

My Name is Paul one of the Community Advisor and a Windows User like you and I will going to help you how to disable your Windows Mail Reading Pane or Preview Pane.

Steps:

* Open Windows Mail.

* In the Lower left clear the GEAR ICON for SETTINGS.

* Click READING

* In the Conversation section, click the “Show preview text” slider button so it turns light gray and reads Off.

* Now, you won’t see the first line of text on every email in the list.

Regards,

 

Reading Pane in Mail


Clicking on the 4 Lines puts you in Selection Mode , it isn't really like in, for example WLM, where you didn't need to have the reading pane open which checking the message list , but then when you clicked on the message to read it, it opened another window with the message.

This is not possible with Win10 Mail AFAIK (yet) though I was it was too. On a touch screen ,eg Surface Tablet, you can now double tap the message to open it in the same window but a double click on a desktop doesn't do that , at least for me.