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Automatically insert date into signature or subject when composing emails in Outlook

Author: Siluvia Last Modified: 2024-10-18

Inserting the current date into the email body or subject helps remind recipients of the specific date the message was sent. Kutools for Outlook has options for automatically inserting the date into the subject and signature when composing new emails in Outlook.

Automatically insert date into signature when creating/replying to/forwarding emails

Automatically insert date into subject when composing emails


Automatically insert date into signature when creating/replying to/forwarding emails

For automatically inserting date into signature when composing new emails, replying to, or forwarding emails, please do as follows.

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1. Click Kutools > Options. See screenshot:
shot options

2. In the Options dialog box, please check the Add a signature with date when create, reply to and forward email box under the New tab, and then click the OK button.
shot of the Options dialog box

Tips:
(1). You can change the signature information on the text box based on your needs;
(2). You can copy one of the date codes from the Usage section to the Add a signature with date when create, reply to and forward email   box.
(3). If necessary, you can click the Date Format button next to the Add a signature with date when create, reply to and forward email  box to change the date and time format in the signature.

From now on, when creating, replying to, forwarding messages, the signature with the current date will be inserted into email body automatically.
shot showing that the signature with the current date will be inserted into email body automatically


Automatically insert date into subject when composing emails

This section will guide you to automatically insert date into the subject line when creating new email messages.

1. Click Kutools > Options. See screenshot:
shot options

2. In the Options dialog box, check the Add date into subject when creating a new email box under the New tab, and then click the OK button. See screenshot:
shot of the Add date into subject when creating a new email box

Tips:
(1). You can change the subject content as you need in the Add date into subject when creating a new email box.
(2). You can copy one of the date code from the Usage section to the Add date into subject when creating a new email box, such as <<Date>>, <<UTCDateTime>>, etc.
(3). If needed, please click the Date Format button next to the Add date into subject when creating a new email box to change the date and time format in the subject.

When creating new email messages each time in Outlook, the current date will be automatically inserted into the subject.
. shot showing that the current date will be automatically inserted into the subject


Notes

Change the date and time format in subject or signature:

(1) In the Options dialog, on the New tab, you can click the Date Format buttons to customize the date time format in the subject or signature.
shot of the Date Format buttons

(2) Now the Date Time Format dialog box comes out, you can pick up the date format and time from both Available formats list boxes, or type in the custom format code into the Custom format boxes.

shot of the Date Time Format dialog box


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