How can I indicate when an e-mail has been printed

[Gillian Pakeman]

I want to set up a field that will show if an e-mail message has been
printed, to be triggered automatically or by entering the data myself. This
is for Outlook Service Pack 3

 

[Roady [MVP]]

There is no specific solution for this. You can of course assign it the
category "Printed" after you have printed a message.
You could automate this via VBA if you want to so you would be initiating
the print command and categorize the message via one command.

 

[David C. Holley]

While I'd recommend a user property (sorry I'm a DB kinda guy), I'd go with
implementing code that alters the subject heading to add [PRINTED] as the
prefix.

 

[VanguardLH]

Roady wrote ...

Gillian Pakeman wrote ...

You can of course assign it the category "Printed" after you have
printed a message.

While I'd recommend a user property (sorry I'm a DB kinda guy), I'd
go with implementing code that alters the subject heading to add
[PRINTED] as the prefix.

Except if the Category attribute is used (i.e., you create a category
and then assign it to an item), you can customize your view(s) to
colorize items in that category. So not only would the OP be able to
assign a category of "Printed" to an item but the OP could also see at
a glance which items had been printed when looking at a list of items
in a folder.