How to Add a “Notes” Column for Your Outlook Messages

If you’ often need to add personalized notes or remarks to Outlook messages, why not customize a “Notes” column in the email list? This article will introduce you the detailed operations to achieve it.

A previous article “4 Easy Methods to Insert a Note into Your Outlook Messages” has introduced 4 effective approaches to add a note into the emails, including customizing a follow up flag, editing the message subject or body and attaching a Note item. In comparison to the 4 workarounds, customizing a “Notes” column is much more convenient. Here are the elaborate steps.

Add a “Notes” Column for Your Outlook Messages

1. At the very outset, you should start Outlook program.
2. Then head to “View” tab and click on “View Settings” button in “Current View” group.
3. A new dialog box of “Advanced View Settings” will arise, in which you can hit “Columns” button.
4. Subsequently, another dialog box of “Show Columns” will pop up. You ought to click the “New Column” button in center.
5. Next in the new popup small dialog box, you can type a name, like “My Notes”. And ensure both the following “Type” and “Format” fields are “Text”.
6. And then, click OK” button, backing to “Show Columns” screen.
7. You will see the “My Notes” field has been added to the right column list. You can press “Move Up” and “Move Down” button to change its order, such as positioning it directly below “Subject”.
8. Now click “OK” button. And in “Advanced View Settings” dialog, enable “Allow in-cell editing” option.
9. Later click a series of “OK” button to close all the dialog boxes and get back to the Outlook mail list.
10. Lastly, you can click into the “My Notes” column and directly start to type the notes at will, like the following screenshot:

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