By default Outlook only shows one line of preview text per email, this sometimes make it hard to tell two emails apart.

Change The Number Of Lines Shown For Message Previews in Outlook 2013

Open Outlook and switch over to the View tab.

Here, under the arrangement section, you will see a Message Preview button. Click on it and adjust the number of lines accordingly.

That’s all there is to it.

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