Show From field in an email in Outlook 2007

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The Pro

– March 3, 2008Posted in: Microsoft Office

In this post, I showed you how to display the Blind Carbon Copy button in Outlook 2007.  Due to overwhelming confusion and the defaults in Outlook 2007, I will show you how to add the From field to an email message.  When you enable the from field this way, you will always see the field on every new email message that you create.

First, open Microsoft Outlook 2007 and click on the “New” button to open a new email message.

A new email message will now open.  Click the “Options” tab at the top of the message and in the Fields section click the “Show From” button.

You will see the From field in the new message and it will remain on every message you now create in Outlook 2007.

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11 Comments

1. Handy

   Posted March 5, 2009 at 6:53 AM

   Ta, useful.

2. JohnBlack

   Posted April 24, 2009 at 10:08 AM

   Is there a way to have Outlook always display the from field ?

   Thanks in advance,

   JohnBlack

3. Andy

   Posted June 9, 2009 at 1:15 AM

   i’ve been looking for it the whole day
   THANKS!!!

4. Lance

   Posted August 13, 2009 at 4:04 PM

   I wish there was an easy way to set up aliases. I guess I can just type in the different addresses in the From field.

5. Rick Hamilton

   Posted October 6, 2009 at 6:39 PM

   I would love to find a way to have the “Show From” field automatically populated in every new email I send. Is there a way to do this with Outlook 2007 or an add-on?

6. Edwin

   Posted November 6, 2009 at 5:36 AM

   Thanks man!!

7. Ron

   Posted November 20, 2009 at 9:23 AM

   You can “change” the name in the “from” field? Why would MS allow that? Example: I am pissed at the CEO or someone else, I open an email, write some junk, and send it to someone under someone elses name?
   And when the mail comes in it doesn’t show “On Behalf Of” or anything like that. I understand it is for “delegation” but it should at least say something to that effect to the receiver.

8. Smitty

   Posted January 5, 2010 at 1:40 PM

   Appreciate your help.

9. Peter little

   Posted January 14, 2010 at 11:21 PM

   My 2007 inbox doesn’t show who the email is “from”. When I click on junk email or any other folder in outlook, its show who the emails are from. What happened to the from field?

10. shashank

    Posted April 20, 2010 at 12:02 AM

    Very Usefull

11. John

    Posted July 6, 2010 at 7:06 AM

    I have the same concern as Ron and it’s actually true!

    I sent a message to myself from my sister’s email address by just typing her address into the “from” field – and it worked! Worse yet, when I sent a reply, she said it went back to her!

    This is simply ridiculous! I can pretend to be anyone I want just by typing their email address? This is a serious security issue and it looks like nothing is being done about it. What’s going on here?