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How to find out creation dates of meetings/appointments in Outlook?

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It’s easy to get the start time and end time of an appointment in Outlook, but have you ever tried to find the appointment’s creation time? This article will introduce several solutions to find out the creation dates of meetings or appointments.

Find out creation date of an appointment/meeting with hidden field

To find out the creation date of an appointment or meeting in Outlook, you can configure this item’s All Fields to show its creation date. Please do as follows:

1. In the "Calendar" view, double-click to open the appointment or meeting whose creation date you want to find.

2. In the opening window, click "Developer" > "Design This Form". See screenshot:

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3. Click the "(All Fields)" tab, select "Date/Time fields" from the "Select from" drop-down list, and then you will see the creation date at the first row. See screenshot:

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Find out creation date of an appointment/meeting with VBA

Below VBA can also help you quickly get the creation date of an appointment or meeting in Outlook. Please do as follows:

1. In the "Calendar" view, select the appointment or meeting whose creation date you want to find.

2. Press "Alt" + "F11" keys simultaneously to open the "Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications" window.

3. Click "Insert" > "Module", and then paste the following VBA code into the new Module window.

Show creation date of the selected calendar item

Sub ShowCreatedDate()

Dim oItem As Object
Set oItem = GetCurrentItem()
MsgBox "This item was created on " & oItem.CreationTime

End Sub

Function GetCurrentItem() As Object
On Error Resume Next
Select Case TypeName(Application.ActiveWindow)
Case "Explorer"
Set GetCurrentItem = Application.ActiveExplorer.Selection.Item(1)
Case "Inspector"
Set GetCurrentItem = Application.ActiveInspector.CurrentItem
End Select
End Function

4. Press "F5" to run this VBA.

Now a dialog box will pop up and show the creation date of the currently selected calendar item. See screenshot:

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Find out creation dates of all appointments/meetings in a calendar

If you need to find out all creation dates of all calendar items in an Outlook calendar, you can add the "Created" column in the calendar folder. Please do as follows:

1. In the "Calendar" view, select the calendar where you want to show all creation dates of all calendar items, and click "View" > "Change View" > "List". See screenshot:

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2. Go ahead to click "View" > "Add Columns". See screenshot:

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3. In the opening Show Columns dialog box, please do as follows:
(1) Select "Date/Time fields" from the "Select available columns from" drop-down list;
(2) Click to select "Created" in the "Available columns" list box;
(3) Click the "Add" button;
(4) Click "Move Up" or "Move Down" to adjust the position of the new "Created" column;
(5) Click "OK".

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Now you will return to the list view of calendar items, and you will see a new "Created" column is added to show the creation dates of all calendar items. See screenshot:

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