Outlook. Totally Messed Up My Email.

[Jennykenny]

I was trying to delete a pile of recent messages, and accidentally marked all as unread. All 6,627 messages (!).
Yes, I know I should have been deleting them as I went along but now I have a total nightmare.
Spent the last fifteen minutes deleting them all by hand. Still in the 6,000 range, by a long shot. Is there any way, short of deleting everything, that I can speed up this process.
It is insane.

[Gizmonster]

Just logged on to my outlook account to check :)

In my inbox, right at the top where it says "focused" and "other" - above this is, you have, "new"; "delete all" and mark all as read".
I'm assuming "delete all" will delete everything in the folder that you're in :)

If, for some reason, you don't want to delete everything in the selected folder, to the left of "focused" is a tick box ,"select all items in view" which will help speed up the deleting process.
The tick box might not be visible - you need to hover the cursor over it (just to the left of focused) for it to show up.

[Prudie]

What exactly were you trying to do? Marking them all as unread doesn't stop you from deleting them in whatever way you originally planned.

[jno]

you can delete blocks of them at one go by clicking on the tick box of the first, then holding down the shift key and clicking on the bottom one; that highlights all the ones in between and you can delete them. (You can unclick the occasional one you want to keep.)

[tonyav]

Just tick the box next to emails and then click delete at the top of the page.

[Flonska]

If your messages are not consecutive in a block, you can hold down the Ctrl key and "click" to highlight the ones you wish to remove and then press "delete."

[Jennykenny]

This is on my iPad, so not sure how some suggestions would work?