How do I count Outlook emails?
QThis isn’t really a problem, but I wonder if you might be able to help? Recently, I was curious about how many emails I was receiving and sending in a month. It was only then that I realised I had no idea how to get this information. Outlook does show how many emails are in my inbox in total, at the bottom left, along with the number unread. I thought if I used Shift to select the relevant batch of emails, the number of selected messages would appear in this same area – but no dice, it seems. I’m sure there must be a way to find this information, but I’ll be darned if I can find it. Do you know if it’s possible? Josh Cohen
AIt both is and is not possible! To explain, we mean that Outlook doesn’t have a specific feature to do what you want, even though we agree that it really should: there are any number of reasons one might want to know how many messages have been selected.
However, there is a workaround that will give you the tally you want, though you do need to be just a tiny bit cautious. That trick is simply to press Enter after selecting the messages. This tells Outlook to open all the selected messages, but, if that number is more than a handful, the program will check your intention – displaying a warning that opening so many messages could take some time. It therefore asks you if you really want to open X number of messages, where X is the quantity selected.
So, as long as you don’t make the mistake of clicking Yes (or hitting Enter again), the result you want is revealed. Just click No or press Escape (Esc) to clear the question box, and that’s that.