Many people have hundreds of messages sitting in their Inbox. Outlook makes it simple to find out how many unread messages are sitting in your Inbox by displaying the amount beside the name of the folder. Outlook also makes it is easy to identify which messages are unread by displaying them in bold text.

The headings of unread messages are displayed in bold text in your Inbox.

What if you want to find all unread messages in your Inbox? Outlook also makes it easy to find unread messages using the Search Folders function. To find all unread messages in Outlook 2007:

1. Within Outlook, in the Navigation Pane, click the plus sign (+) next to Search Folders to display its subfolders.
2. Click the Unread Mail folder.
3. All unread items are displayed in the message list.