Comments on: How to create a column in any email folder to show the age of your emails

By: Richard Maybury

Richard Maybury — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 11:39:34 +0000

Hi Tittle, how are things in Delhi? It has been a good few months since I was last out there.
I’m not clear on whether your ‘Resource’ is a person or a thing (meeting room etc). I assume it is a person.
I assume also that you are looking for a way to have clarity and control over the delivery of work or information you have requested from others by email.
Can you please confirm this or re-clarify and I will respond more fully.
Interestingly, I have just posted a blog on some very bad delegation of workload by email this morning!

By: Tittle Joseph

Tittle Joseph — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 10:29:15 +0000

I want to have a custom column ‘Resource Assigned’. The purpose of this column is to know to whom a particular mail is assigned. Is there anyway I can go to properties of the mail and fill value for the field ‘Resource Assigned’ for that email. It’ll be great if I’m able to sort on this column and then I can know out of so many emails to whom what is assigned.

By: Richard Maybury

Richard Maybury — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 06:53:05 +0000

Hi Daniel, I am not aware of any automatic method of seeing that an email we send has been read other than the ‘Read Receipt’ functionality and I do not know of any way to turn a ‘Read Receipt’ email into a flag type column.

There are a couple of key difficulties with using ‘Read Receipt’, in my opinion:
1) It can be corrosive tothat most important element of any communication relationship – Trust.
2) It can be automatically overridden by the receiver of such requests anyway, so there is little point in using it.

If you do find any way of managing this for yourself please do let me know
My kind regards
Richard

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:41:08 +0000

I’m curious… in that same regard.. can I have columns similar to the flag column so that more than one person can mark the email done… say I have 3 people that I want to read an email… whats the best way for me to see that all have read it?

By: Richard Maybury

Richard Maybury — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:37:50 +0000

Happy you found it useful Mark. Remember: Prioritise your purpose, everything else is secondary
Best wishes for 2010
Richard

By: mark

mark — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:07:32 +0000

Hi,

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you! Your Custom Folder View tip is exactly what I’ve been looking for!! I’ve been trying to find out (for what sems like years now) how to globally change my email folders (I must have a few hundered) so that the default reading pane displays the “From” column and not the “To” column!!!

Thanks again!

Best regards,
Mark

By: Richard Maybury

Richard Maybury — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:47:52 +0000

Hi Kradak, you are right in saying that you can’t sort by this column and that is not the primary intention of it. It is principally there as a quick reference for age.
To see all emails that you have not replied to separately to other emails simply make sure you have the ‘Icon’ column active in your view ( my first 4 columns are Priority, Icon, attachment, age). Now simply click the Icon column header. Does that work for you?

By: Kradak

Kradak — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:12:30 +0000

I tried your custom field, but found that I could not sort by it. Neither was I able to apply a filter to this user-created field (to display only items older than an age threshold), but this was not available in the CustomizeView…Filter…Advanced…DefineMoreCriteria element of Outlook 2007.

Personally, I’d like to be able to list all messages that I have not replied to, or better yet, to list all messages replied to but the other party has not responded to by a date threshold.