Outlook 2007: Automatically Close Original Message After You Reply or Foward

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If you forward or reply to lots of messages, then this can be a real timesaver. By changing the configuration of Outlook, you can make it automatically close the original message after you have forwarded or replied to it.

1. Open Outlook.

2. Go to the menu, click Tools and select Options.

3. Under the Preferences tab, go to the E-mail section and click the Email Options button.

4. In the Message handling section, check the Close original message on reply or forward checkbox.

5. Click the OK button to close E-mail Options.

6. Click the OK button to close Options.

 

19 Comments -


  1. fred said on October 27, 2008

    awsome, you are my hero, this was in the top 5 list of most annoying outlook 2007 issues!

  2. luiz paulo said on November 6, 2008

    nice tip

    thanks

  3. Jane said on November 7, 2008

    I am sooo frustrated that I cannot close a page! With Comcast it was sooo simple.

    For example, I clicked on sent message and one appeared on the screen. Now I can’t get it off!

    Isnt’t there a simple way to close what is on the screen. I’ve gone out of Outlook and come back in and the same thing is on the screen.

  4. Beverly said on November 8, 2008

    This is awsome. I have tried to change this for some time. Thank you

  5. John said on November 13, 2008

    very helpful!
    You don’t know how many superfluous windows I was stacking up of emails I was mentally done with.

  6. Dave Steadman said on November 14, 2008

    I hope that this is the right place for this. Here goes. I have done something to Microsoft Outlook such that when I open a message in the Inbox it disappears when I close it. How can I make the message remain in the Inbox unless I want to delete it.

  7. Corinne said on November 14, 2008

    I wrote an email in a hotmail format IN the HorizonChristian Fellowship email listing contact list. It was a long letter and did not go through. Where is it in cyber space. Can I retrive it? Please help.

  8. Megan said on December 1, 2008

    gotta love that tip

  9. Brian said on April 21, 2009

    Great, except these choices are not available in my configuration. Why not?

  10. Kathy said on April 29, 2009

    how do I delete the original sent message when I reply to it. When I send an email message, I have it set to keep the original message with it but then I end up with the original all by itself also. A duplicate that I want to delete automatically.

  11. Rocco said on June 18, 2009

    Perfect. I had completely forgotten where to find this jewel.

  12. kel said on June 18, 2009

    Can I block this from happening to me, when people have marked the message as closed after replying? Anyway to get around the lined out message to open it, especially if its a reply to my original message?

  13. KevinH said on August 6, 2009

    You have left your view setting for that folder to show “Unread Messages in this folder” therefore they appear to vanish upon reading them.
    Change the view back to Messages

  14. Anonymous said on September 21, 2009

    What if this IS NOT WORKING??

  15. Anonymous said on January 18, 2010

    But, how do you get open messages to automatically close once you delete them?

  16. Anonymous said on February 26, 2010

    How do I get Outlook to leave the original email in the inbox after replying? At present, any emails I reply to automatically get deleted from the inbox and I do not want that to happen.

  17. Jmuir said on September 22, 2010

    you ever get a solution gina_r? I have the same issue.

    J.

  18. Bill Legarzia said on September 24, 2010

    Beautiful. Thank you very much just what I needed.

  19. usha said on November 8, 2011

    hi frnnz,

    when i am opening a mail and closing it,the entire inbox is closing automatically,please help me out fom this???

 

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