You aren't dreaming.

It's a setting in tools options - email options
button - very top, after moving or deleting... chose the action you prefer.
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"Rick" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:59252BEE-253B-47D8-A742-(E-Mail Removed)...
>I have Office 2003 and want to know if it is possible to open a message and
> then, say, delete that message and have the next one open automatically?
> I
> swear i was able to do this in Outlook 2002, but now I can no longer do
> so.
> Was I dreaming?
>
> Ric