Step 2: In the popping up Edit Quick Step dialog box, Enter a new name for your customizing quick step in the Name: box, for example enter Autofill Subject ; Click the Choose an Action box, and select the New Message in the Respond section from the drop down list. Step 3: Click the text of Show Options below the To box to expand the preset message options, enter your preset subject in the Subject box, and click the Finish button.
Step 4: Apply the new created quick part with clicking its name Autofill Subject in the Quick Steps box on the Home tab. Then it creates a new email message , and automatically fills out the subject line with the text you preset in Step 3. After editing, click Save to commit the changes, or click close and don't save to revert to the original subject. Although the subject field doesn't look editable and appears grayed in older versions of Outlook, which usually means you can't make changes, you can click in the subject area and start typing.
When you use conversation groups, the subject in the message list will not change. The new subject will show in the reading pane. In order to edit the subject in an open message in Outlook , , or , you need to expand the header by clicking the caret in the lower right to expand the header for editing. For more information and to set the header to always be collapsed or expanded when Outlook is restarted, see Compact Header below.
Rather than a compact header that can be expanded to edit, we return to one header size, which is editable. As with older versions of Outlook, all you need to do is type over the subject to edit it. Then click Save , although you will be asked to save changes when you close the message. Click Other settings button to open the dialog shown in the screenshot.
You'll see an option for Allow in-cell editing. Check the checkbox, then click OK, and you'll be able to edit the subject of any item in the folder, without the need to open the item first. Note: In-cell editing works only when the message list is using a single line view. When you use Conversation view in Outlook or , you'll need to have more than one message in the conversation to use in-cell editing.
If there is only one message, turn off view by Conversation. Outlook on Mac also supports editing the subject. You'll need to select the message in the message list then click Message, Edit Message from the the menu bar to open the message in Editing mode.
Edit the subject line as needed then click the Save button. This video was created using Outlook , however, it applies to all versions of Outlook. In older versions of Outlook the Message list shows the edited subject:.
In Outlook and newer, when you use the default view with the Date Conversation setting, you'll see the original subject in the message list:. As you can see, the edited subject shows in the preview pane but not in the message list, because you are only changing the subject, not the conversation title, and the new Conversation view uses the Conversation field.
When you turn off the Show messages in conversation view, Outlook will display the edited subject, just as it does in older versions of Outlook. Switch to the View ribbon and deselect the Show in Conversation option Or Right click on the row of field names above the message list and click Show message in conversation to deselect it. Outlook SP1 and newer allow users to collapse the message header to a more compact size.
When the header is collapsed, the subject field is NOT editable. In Outlook , the default is the expanded header while older builds of Outlook defaults to a collapsed header.
The default setting for Outlook is the collapsed header. Once expanded, the header should stay expanded until you click the caret to collapse it again. Actually Microsoft Outlook supports this feature, and here we will guide you to edit or change the subjects of received messages with ease.
The following steps will guide you to change or edit one email's subject line quickly in Outlook. Please do as follows:. In the Mail view, double click to open the email whose subject line you will change. Now the email is opening in the Message window. Please click the button at the bottom-right corner of message header to expand the message header. See screenshot:. Note : In Outlook or earlier version, the message header is expanded by default, please skip this step directly.
Now the message header is expanded. Please edit the subject line directly, and then click the Save button. Please close the Message window as you need. If you need to change multiple emails' subject lines in Outlook, above method will be a little tedious. Here, this method will guide you to change the folder's view setting, and edit emails' subject lines in the Message List directly.
In the popping out Other Settings dialog box, please check the Allow in-cell editing option, and then click the OK buttons successively to close both dialog boxes.
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