How to view only your unread emails: 1. Open Outlook, click the search box.
2. This opens the search ribbon, click ‘All Mail’ button.
3. Now click Advanced.
4. On the dropdown that appears and will currently say ‘Item Contains’,
5. click it and select ‘Read Status’. This brings up 2 more boxes, you want ‘is’ and ‘unread’
6. Now click the little + symbol to add another condition.
This time change the second condition to be ‘Folder’ ; ‘Is Not’
On the 3rd option, click it and select ‘Choose Folder’
In the pop up box, type ‘Deleted Items’ and then select it from the results and click Choose
7. By now you should see all your unread emails, in all your folders, and your search conditions will look like this
8. We now need this to be repeatable, so, now click ‘Save’
This should prompt you to give a folder an appropriate name under SMART FOLDERS, I called mine Unread Mail
How to create a list on Outlook for Macs
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/mac-outlook-help/create-a-contact-group-also-called-a-distribution-list-HA102928268.aspx
http://www.lukedarby.co.uk/2012/09/outlook-2011-get-the-unread-mail-folder-back/