MS Outlook: Edit Received Emails

In this post I share a quite unknown Microsoft Outlook tip.

I want to be able to edit received emails to better search them later.
I receive a lot of emails with unclear subjects for example. (who doesn't?).
I don't want to have to forward it to me to be able to edit the subject of the email because the sender is then changed to myself and it duplicates the email.

This is quite a common requested feature for an Email application.
(This seems still hard to do in Gmail.)

No need to forward it to yourself for editing it.

You can edit an Email in Outlook by customizing the quick access toolbar in the single window Message view:
Click on the Top Quick-Access-Toolbar, Choose "More Commands..."

Select "Message Tab" -> Edit Message command as shown below:

Add Edit Message Command to Quick Access Toolbar

Then press the "Add>>" button.
You can move it to the top.

Add Edit Message Command to Quick Access Toolbar - Move to the top

Now when the email is opened in a standalone window, you can edit the message by clicking on this button on the quick access toolbar.

You can then rename the subject or edit its content for example.

Save the message after editing (Ctrl+S).

No need to forward it to yourself for editing it!

Note: you can also do this from the Actions Menu in the Move section of the ribbon as explained here. The location of this menu is quite hard to find/ remember. That's why I prefer creating a shortcut in the Quick Access Toolbar.