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How often do your users want to "Mark All" as read or unread?

Mary Beth Raven  June 11 2009 12:05:04 PM
Ubiquitous users,
We have had a bit of feedback that says that the way we organized the menus for Unread marks makes it too easy to mark all unread (or mark all read) by accident.
(feel free to refer to the screenshot below).

Image:How often do your users want to "Mark All" as read or unread?

Please note that in Notes 8.5 the context menu for the inbox was greatly reduced and Philippe can mark an individual message as read or unread. Is this sufficient-- as in, shall we leave the Edit - Unread marks menu alone and simply encourage users to use the context menu (and/or the Insert key) (Refer to the second screenshot below).
Thus, I am not inclined to change the Edit - Unread Marks menu because Philippe has ways to avoid accidentally marking all read or unread. (however, he might not find those very discoverable). I look forward to your opinions.
Image:How often do your users want to "Mark All" as read or unread?