Automatically insert today's date into the Outlook email subject
Meeting notes, project updates, and recurring reports often need today’s date in the subject of an Outlook email. If you send them regularly and are tired of adding the date manually every single time, let Shared Email Templates handle it for you. Setting up a dynamic subject line with the current date is easy. Watch this short video for a quick walkthrough or follow the steps below if written instructions are more your thing.
Add the subject text.
On the template editor toolbar, click the Insert macro button, double-click Fill Subject, and enter the text you want to use for the subject line.
Insert today’s date.
Decide where in the subject text the current date should appear. Place the cursor there and click the Insert nested macro icon. Then double-click Insert date.
Choose how the date should look.
In the Date dialog, pick a date format and language, and then click OK. In the Fill Subject line dialog, add punctuation or spacing as needed and click OK again.
Save the template.
Your Outlook email template now has a dynamic subject with the current date. Click Save.
From now on, whenever you insert the template into an Outlook message, the subject line will automatically display your predefined text and the current date.