Outlook 2010 Inbox organizational skills: display e-mail age

MS Outlook 2010 and above to provide a wealth of Inbox management settings, you can customize according to your inbox required a variety of settings to help youquickly and easily manage e-mail. Before we introduced the Outlook 2010 Inboxorganizational skills such as sorting by thread groups, e-mail color distinction, set the font distinguish mail.

In fact, we can also create and illustrate a new user-defined fields in Outlook 2010 Inboxto add custom columns, with the hours and days display e-mail age.

Specific methods are as follows:

1 Right-click on the column title bar, then on the shortcut menu, click "Field Chooser."

(2) Click "New." This will display the "New Field" dialog box.

3 In the "Type" list, click the "formula."

4 in the "formula" box, type the following formula: DateDiff ("h", [Received], Now ())

5 In the "Name" box, enter the name of this formula, such as "e-age", then click "OK."Note that, in the return to the "Field Chooser" dialog box, the list is now displayed in the"Inbox user-defined fields," and you just define the field ("e-age") is displayed in its thefollowing.

6 will just create a new field is added to the column title bar, put "receive time" columnnext to the title.

7 Note that, even though they have added a new column, but it is not formatted correctly.To set the format, right-click the column title bar.

8 In the shortcut menu, click "Format Columns."

9 This will display "Format Columns" dialog box. The field you created earlier that "age of e-mail" field should be in the "Available Fields" list. Click the "E-mail age."

10 In the "Formula" box, type the following formula: DateDiff ("h", [Received], Now ()) & "hours (" & DateDiff ("d", [Received], Now ()) & "day (s)) old "

11 Click "OK."

You can now quickly and easily e-mail inbox to see how long time has been received.