{"id":6508,"date":"2015-12-09T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T19:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/stage\/?p=6508"},"modified":"2017-08-21T14:13:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T21:13:51","slug":"unable-to-edit-the-message-subject-in-outlook-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/unable-to-edit-the-message-subject-in-outlook-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Unable to Edit the Message Subject in Microsoft Outlook 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I frequently edit the message subject in Outlook 2016. For example, when I book a flight and receive my itinerary from the airline, I change the message subject to reflect my trip to the city and the dates for my trip. This helps me quickly glance at the subject in a folder, or do a search on the metadata, and easily locate the information. It&#8217;s just my way of adding the metadata to a message to quickly locate the message when I do the search. I know a lot of other people use the same technique and modify their message subject.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Today I tried to edit the message in Outlook 2006 and noticed that it won&#8217;t let me change the message. I have never encountered this problem before. I tried a few things and also restarted Outlook but nothing helped. I did an Internet search and found a solution documented by<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/mvp.microsoft.com\/en-us\/PublicProfile\/6934?fullName=diane%20poremsky\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Outlook MVP Diane Poremsky<\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">in<\/span> a forum. <span style=\"color: #000000;\">She mentioned that &#8220;the subject is not editable in the collapsed header but is editable if you expand the header (using the caret on the lower right of the header).&#8221; Here&#8217;s what the minimized header looks like.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Expand_header.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Expand_header-300x68.png\" alt=\"Expand_header\" width=\"300\" height=\"68\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Expand_header-300x68.png 300w, https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Expand_header-768x174.png 768w, https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Expand_header.png 995w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Well, in my case the header was already expanded as shown below. I simply clicked on the caret and minimized it once. Then clicked on the caret again to expand it because I prefer the expanded\u00a0 header. That did the trick.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Minimize_header.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6513\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Minimize_header-300x80.png\" alt=\"Minimize_header\" width=\"300\" height=\"80\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Minimize_header-300x80.png 300w, https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Minimize_header-768x206.png 768w, https:\/\/www.zubairalexander.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Minimize_header.png 996w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I restarted Outlook 2016 to see if it will mess up my ability to edit the message subject and luckily it didn&#8217;t.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small; font-family: Verdana;\">Copyright \u00a9 2015 SeattlePro Enterprises, LLC. 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