Outlook – How to autofill subject line in Outlook

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How to autofill subject line in Outlook for new messages, replies, and forwards?

I am now allowed to send [unsecure] emails from my agency, but have to manually put in [unsecure] for every email going out (replies, forwards, and new messages) in the subject line.

This is very time consuming.

Is there a way to program my subject line to ALWAYS have [secure] as the first text in subject line? even for replies and forwarded emails?
ksw

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In the Quick Steps section of the Home ribbon, choose the Create New option.
In the window this brings up, click on the Choose an Action drop down, then choose New Message (you will need to repeat this as needed for Replies/Forwards/etc).
Click on the Show Options flyout button.
In the Subject: text field, add your desired text (make sure to leave the <subject> intact for Replies/Forwards as this is the placeholder for the original message's subject).
Optionally choose a shortcut key and add tooltip for helpful reminders, then click Finish.

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Mac – How to create a macro in Outlook 2010 to add the the date to the subject line

To accomplish the title of your post you are looking for Now with some date manipulation.

Sub STUFF()
    Dim msg As Outlook.MailItem
    Set msg = Application.CreateItem(olMailItem)
    msg.To = "email@email.ca"
    msg.CC = "BumblebeeJoe@email.ca"
    msg.Subject = "STUFF STUFF STUFF" & Now
    msg.Body = "PERSON, STUFF STUFF STUFF" & Now
    msg.Display
    msg.Attachments.Add ("e:\temp\" & Format(Now, "dd.mm.2014") & ".xlsx")
    Set msg = Nothing
End Sub

Now would just return the date which in our case is just appended to the strings for Subject and Body. If you are looking to format the date you would use something like Format(Now, "dd.mm.2014") that you see in the Attachment.Add example. More date formatting examples

As for the attachment that is fairly simple. I have not done any data validation for paths which you should do but I ended up with the following in my test. This also entirely depends on your file naming conventions.

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Then all you would need to do is something like assign a quick access toolbar button to your macro.

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