Is there an option for "Mark All Emails as Read Across All Folders" in Outlook?

Question

I have lots of Outlook folders (30+) and they each get a trickle of over 200 emails a day.

Usually I scan through each folder to make sure nothing important is in there and right click on the folder and press E to 'Mark All as Read'.

This gets tedious and I want to eliminate the second step so I can just scan through my folders then press a button to mark all subfolders and folders as read at the end.

I would like to say this differs from this as I would like to know which emails are new and not have them automatically all be marked as read when they come in.

Answer 1

The Search Folder tip does the work. To do this go "Folder" tab > press "New Search Folder" > on the pop window select "Unread mail" > Press OK. This will create a folder, like all your others, on the left menu (where you have Inbox, Sent Items so on), named Search Folder > Unread Mail and you can right click and "Mark all as read".

Answer 2

No there isn't a single button that does this, not in the Outlook client.

You could use a search query and then select all (Ctrl - A), right-click, and then mark all as read.

Answer 3

I found a way to do this: Based on the other answer of doing a search, I created a new customized search folder and selected all of my folders that I wanted to do a mass "Mark as Read" action, with a criteria of "unread". This made a new "Unread" search folder for just the targeted folders. Now I can do a single right-click and "Mark All as Read".