Sadly, it doesn't appear that the Outlook gods are smiling down on Gavin this week. As far as we've been able to find (and we've really looked), there's no way to export the time and date field. This is bizarre, because Outlook even lets you export the mileage field. Mileage?

Just in case you think this is a serious oversight that would obviously have been remedied in Outlook 2007, think again. Exporting works exactly the same way, giving you a mileage field, but no date/time field. Oh, sure, Outlook 2007 will now let you export RSS and OPML file formats, but not dates from your emails.

Gavin, the Outlook works in mysterious ways.

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Francine Otterson is the President of the San Diego Outlook User Group and a Microsoft Outlook MVP. She has been in the IT industry for over 10 years, providing technical support, software customization solutions and training in corporate settings, and as a consultant. She balances her work around her daughter and husband in sunny San Diego, California.