Thanks, Allen. That's a good solution that works for me.
From: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 20:00:01 -0800 To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]> Subject: Entourage-Talk Digest - 11/26/06 Subject: Re: Shutting off Read/Not Read? As Barry says, it isn't possible. However, what you want may be some kind of "Recent Unread" display, so that older, unread messages are omitted. You can accomplish that with a Custom View. Use the Advanced Find in the Edit menu and do a Find operation on all folders for messages "less than" some number of days--say 3--and whose status is "Unread". Entourage then builds a list of all messages, in all folders, that you have received during the last three days that are still unread. Now, select "Save as Custom View" from the File menu, and give this search a name, e.g., "Recent Unread". It will appear at the bottom of your folder list as one of your Mail Views, and you can click there at any time to show a refreshed listing. I have such a list, and I have its View set so that it is arranged and grouped by folder. There may be 20 uread messages in my Inbox, for instance, but in the custom view, only the four that came in over the last 3 days are counted, and the count next to Inbox in the listing is (3), not (20). I then use "Hide Folders" to hide the folder pane, which still has the total unread counts showing.
