How to Turn Off the Outlook Reading Pane by Default

"He was a stronger personality than the Catholic priest," Wolfgang Pauli would later say about the other person rushed in for his baptizing: Ernst Mach. It is to Mach's influence at the event that Pauli, calling himself "baptized anti-metaphysical", attributed his deep scepticism for anything beyond the physical even after "greater spiritual transformations in later years".
Now, you don't have to be passionately anti-preview-pane or sceptical of anything beyond message lists to want to get rid of Outlook's reading pane; either way, you can:
›› Do you prefer messages not to open automatically? Do you like the overview of a preview pane-free message list? Here are two ways to disable Outlook's reading pane — for all folders, and by default.