I use Outlook 2003 (SP 3) with Vista Business.

I recently decided to "do away" with the Sent Items folder and save al
outgoing messages in other selected folders (I posted a suggestion about it
on 27 June). Every folder now contains both received and sent messages, and
I customized the view so that I now have a From, To, Subject, Received, Sent
and Size column (field).

I assumed that, for incoming messages, only the the Received field would
show a date, while for outgoing messages only the Sent field would show a
date. However, the date appears in both the Received and Sent fields for
incoming and outgoing messages. The only way to distinguish between incoming
and outgoing messages is by looking at the From and To columns, which is OK
but not ideal.

Is there a way to have the date of sending of an outgoing message appearing
ONLY in the Sent field, and vice versa for the Received field for incoming
messages? If not, then one may as well do away with one of the date fields
and change the label to, say, "Sent / Received"?

No, not possible.
The fields are not redundant as there is a difference between the sending
time of a message by the sender and the receiving time of the message in the
inbox of the recipient.

Why not use Automatic Formatting to distinguish between send and received
email? For instance, mark all messages with your address in From field blue.
See http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/c...iladvanced.htm

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Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
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"David" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I use Outlook 2003 (SP 3) with Vista Business.
>
> I recently decided to "do away" with the Sent Items folder and save al
> outgoing messages in other selected folders (I posted a suggestion about
> it on 27 June). Every folder now contains both received and sent messages,
> and I customized the view so that I now have a From, To, Subject,
> Received, Sent and Size column (field).
>
> I assumed that, for incoming messages, only the the Received field would
> show a date, while for outgoing messages only the Sent field would show a
> date. However, the date appears in both the Received and Sent fields for
> incoming and outgoing messages. The only way to distinguish between
> incoming and outgoing messages is by looking at the From and To columns,
> which is OK but not ideal.
>
> Is there a way to have the date of sending of an outgoing message
> appearing ONLY in the Sent field, and vice versa for the Received field
> for incoming messages? If not, then one may as well do away with one of
> the date fields and change the label to, say, "Sent / Received"?

You're welcome! :-)

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Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
http://www.howto-outlook.com/
Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more

http://www.msoutlook.info/
Real World Questions, Real World Answers

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"David" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Robert, thanks for the prompt reply AND useful suggestion.