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Outlook for mac no longer respects reading pane choice
I normally view my emails on Outlook for Mac with the Reading Pane set to "right". Got an update of Outlook this morning and now Outlook changes the Reading Pane setting back to "Bottom" whenever I q...
I have been facing the same issue, but you can try downgrading to solve the issue.
(Version 16.102.1 (25101829))
The old version can be downloaded from the website below.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/update-history-office-for-mac
i have tried an failed to correct this setting in update 16.102.2 that appeared on my Mac on October 29, 2025. MSFT needs to de-bug this View > Reading Pane setting to allow users to set the Pane to the Right of our email list, and ensure that the setting does not revert back to a forced View > Below the list of recent emails. Hopefully, MSFT won't take months to fix it and will have the fix in a new update shortly --- like early next week.