When I delete a message, Outlook jumps to the first message why?

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John D. Carmack

If I get 100 messages, I want to start with the oldest and work my way up to
the top. I have Outlook set to "open previous item" in the Options for
"After moving or deleting an open item". As long as I receive no email
during the time I am working, if I delete or move the email I am reading, it
goes to the previous as expected.

However, if I receive an email while working on an email, then it jumps up
to the new email when I delete the email I am reading. This is getting
pretty frustrating, as I then have to scroll down over 50 messages to get
back to where I was! Why is it doing this?
 
I have a similar issue with Outlook 2013. I have a folder with hundreds of emails in it. I read/delete these sorted from oldest to newest. When I delete 2 in a row, the highlight goes down to the most recent unread message. How can this be fixed? Never had this problem before 2013.


Diane Poremsky [MVP] said:
does it work the same if you sort by oldest messages on top?

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"John D. Carmack" <(e-mail address removed)> wrote in message
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> If I get 100 messages, I want to start with the oldest and work my way up
> to
> the top. I have Outlook set to "open previous item" in the Options for
> "After moving or deleting an open item". As long as I receive no email
> during the time I am working, if I delete or move the email I am reading,
> it
> goes to the previous as expected.
>
> However, if I receive an email while working on an email, then it jumps up
> to the new email when I delete the email I am reading. This is getting
> pretty frustrating, as I then have to scroll down over 50 messages to get
> back to where I was! Why is it doing this?
>
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I do have the oldest messages at top. When I delete two unread messages in a row the highlight jumps to second to last email at bottom.

When sorting by oldest on bottom there is no problem.
 
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