>as Outlook presents it in the 'message list' (centre column of standard display, showing essentially 'headers' of messages)?
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>My regional settings have the date format set at yyyy/MM/dd, yet Outlook insists on showing me the date as mm/dd/yyyy.
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>I'd really like to get crappy date displays like that out of my system!
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>thanks


hello Jim

try this ( i got office 2002)

right click on the column header, go to format columns. you can change the format there, but i did not see your specific format. looks like outlook forces the format itself.