Editing Emails in Outlook

I only recently realized how easy it is to edit existing email messages in Outlook. I guess I assumed that an email message was "locked down" somehow once it was sent. But that's not the case, so I often add a note to a saved email to remind me of an action I need to take, or a conversation that I had with the sender.

In Woody's Office Watch, Woody points out how to edit emails and how to tell when an email has been edited. See "Has an Outlook Message Been Edited?" in the Feb. 16th email with a follow-up today discussing the pitfalls of assuming that email messages can't be tampered with and changed.

According to Woody, "It's worth remembering that not only received items can usually be edited but the 'Sent Items' copy of message you send can be edited after sending. So it is possible for someone to change their record of an email that was sent."