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[Guest]

I would like to add a CreateDate and Time field to my Outlook 2007 signature
so that they update when a new message is created. I used to insert these
via AutoText in Outlook 2003.
I have tried to add the appropriate "Fields" to the signature, but they
display either as the original date/time added to the signature or as the
Field Code (not the result).

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

I don't think Outlook can make use of Word fields like that. Isn't the date on the message itself enough anyway?

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Guest]

Outlook 2003 can use Word fields and accomplish the date, time insert.
Outlook 2007 apparently cannot.

p.s. don't be so arrogant that you think you know best what users need for
their purposes. When I indicated I needed time and date - that's what I need!

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Sue - arrogant? Hardly - more a case of you shooting the messenger when the news is not what you wanted to hear.

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After furious head scratching, Nelson Toussaint asked:

| Outlook 2003 can use Word fields and accomplish the date, time insert.
| Outlook 2007 apparently cannot.
|
| p.s. don't be so arrogant that you think you know best what users
| need for their purposes. When I indicated I needed time and date -
| that's what I need!
|
| "Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| I don't think Outlook can make use of Word fields like that. Isn't
|| the date on the message itself enough anyway?
||
|| --
|| Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
|| Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
||
|| and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
|| Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
||
||
|| in message
||
||| I would like to add a CreateDate and Time field to my Outlook 2007
||| signature so that they update when a new message is created. I
||| used to insert these via AutoText in Outlook 2003.
||| I have tried to add the appropriate "Fields" to the signature, but
||| they display either as the original date/time added to the
||| signature or as the Field Code (not the result).

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

I haven't been able to get Word fields to work well in Outlook 2003. Do you have exact steps to reproduce your success?

Gee, since when is curiosity considered arrogance? I still wonder what value you see in putting the date in the message twice.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers