You jusyt need to adjust their Reading Pane or Preview Pane settings. You
forgot to mention your version of Outlook and this function's name was
changed a while ago.
Go to their computer and take a look at Tools | Options | Other | Reading
Pane/Preview Pane and have it stop marking items as Read.
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