How to Insert the Date and Time in an Outlook Item

One often requested feature that is missing in Outlook is ability to insert a date and time stamp into the body of Outlook items. while Outlook doesn't offer it directly, you can use a custom form or an add-in to insert the date stamp.

The following is from the article Add a Date Stamp to Your Notes Field published on our Outlook-Tips website. It shows you how to create a custom form that has a Date Stamp button.

See the Tools section below for add-ins that you can use instead. Note that the custom forms method doesn't work well with Appointment forms since you can't change the first page of the form. It also doesn't work well with contacts in Outlook 2003 and 2007 since editing the first page of the form reverts the form to the older Outlook contact form (as in the screenshot below).

Custom Form Method

In a new form:

1. Select the Tools menu, Forms, Design this form
2. Then from the View menu, choose View code
3. In the code window, enter this code:

Sub StampDate()
Item.Body = Now() & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & Item.Body
End Sub

Sub CommandButton1_Click()
Call  StampDate()
End End Sub

After entering the code, close the code window.

Next:

1. Open the Control toolbox and drag a command button to the form.
2. Rename it by right clicking on it and selecting Properties.
3. In the Caption field, type in the desired name.

To use, click the button you created.

Tools

More Information

To stamp a date on a Microsoft Outlook item (Outlookcode)