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Easily display or show message header information in the Outlook message window

Author Siluvia Last modified

You may know how to view the full headers of a selected email in Outlook. However, do you know how to show certain header information in the Outlook message window directly? With the Show Hidden Information of Email utility in Kutools for Outlook, you can decide which header information to display and show it directly in the Outlook message window.


Show message header information in the Outlook message window

Please do as follows to show specific header information in the Outlook message window.

1. Select a message in the mailing list, then click Kutools > Utilities > Show Hidden Information of Email to enable the feature.

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2. After enabling the feature, you can see the header information is displayed at the top of the message window. See screenshot:

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Notes:

1) If you want to change the display header information, please configure it as follows.

1.1 Click the shot-show-message-info-3  button in the message header section.

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1.2 In the opening Set the message header information dialog box, check the header you want to display in the message window, and then click the OK button to save the changes.

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2) You can move the location of header information by selecting and clicking the Up, Down, or Top button in the Set the message header information dialog box.

3) You can also view the full header information of the selected message by clicking the View all header information button in the Set the message header information dialog box.

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4) For newly created emails, sent emails, and those messages without header information, the message information section will display as the below screenshot shown.

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5) Click Kutools > Utilities > Show Hidden Information of Email again to turn off the feature.


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