Email Dates

[DaniA]

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Email Client: pop

My incoming original emails are not showing the date it was sent on in the letter. So if I print the letter I have no record. Only when I respond does it show the date.

Also, is there a way to show the full date in the center email list column rather than "Today", "Yesterday", "Monday" and so forth?

 

[William Smith [MVP]]

My incoming original emails are not showing the date it was sent on
in the letter. So if I print the letter I have no record. Only when I
respond does it show the date.

I cannot recall Entourage 2004's behavior, but in Entourage 2008 these
header items appear at the top of a printed mail message:

Subject
Date
From
To

If someone else can confirm the date does not print in Entourage 2004
then this may be a reason for you to upgrade your copy of Office for Mac.

Also, is there a way to show the full date in the center email list
column rather than "Today", "Yesterday", "Monday" and so forth?

Go to Entourage menu --> Preferences... --> General Preferences -->
General and de-select "Use relative dates in lists".

Hope this helps!

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bill

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[Adam Bailey]

I cannot recall Entourage 2004's behavior, but in Entourage 2008 these
header items appear at the top of a printed mail message:

Subject
Date
From
To

The exception here is on messages with complex HTML. These will print
with just the message body and not the header info.

 

[Zoes]

I cannot recall Entourage 2004's behavior, but in Entourage 2008 these
header items appear at the top of a printed mail message:

Subject
Date
From
To

If someone else can confirm the date does not print in Entourage 2004
then this may be a reason for you to upgrade your copy of Office for Mac.


Go to Entourage menu --> Preferences... --> General Preferences -->
General and de-select "Use relative dates in lists".

Hope this helps!

--

bill

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Bill,

Do you have another suggestion for switching from the relative date format (Mon, Tues) to the actual date? In my general preferences, "Use relative ..." already was unselected. I've tried clicking it on and off again, but no luck.

If the email is more than 7 days old, I see the date. But if it's within the past 7 calendar days, I can't get the date to show.

zoes

 

[William Smith [MVP]]

Do you have another suggestion for switching from the relative date
format (Mon, Tues) to the actual date? In my general preferences,
"Use relative ..." already was unselected. I've tried clicking it on
and off again, but no luck.

If the email is more than 7 days old, I see the date. But if it's
within the past 7 calendar days, I can't get the date to show.

The Relative Dates feature only displays "Yesterday" and "Today" in
place of the date in mail messages. This is not responsible for the date
format.

To change the date format, you'll want to first quit Entourage and then
go to Apple menu --> System Preferences... --> International -->
Formats. You'll need to customize the Short Date to remove the day. I
suggest simply resetting your Region to your particular region if it
currently shows "Custom". That's the quickest and easiest way.

Hope this helps!

--

bill

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