Save As PDF, Save As PDF Pro, Attachment Save, Attachment Save Pro, Rename Attachments and Quick Text Hotkeys all allow you to specify a date/time format. The add-in provides a drop down list that allows you to select a pre-defined date format. What most people don’t realize is that they can type directly in that box to specify a custom format. I get a lot of people asking how they can get the format to display in a specific way. I hope that the Outlook date display format tips and tricks provided here will help answer your questions. Here is a list of formats that can be used:
- d – day of the month, no leading zero (1-30 (or 31))
- dd – day of month, with leading zero (01-30 (or 31))
- ddd – day of the week, short form (like Mon, Tue, Wed)
- dddd – day of the week, long form (like Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday)
- w – week of the year, no leading zero (1-51)
- ww – week of the year, with leading zero (01-51)
- M – month, no leading zero (1-12)
- MM – month, with leading zero (01-12)
- MMM – full month name, short (like Oct, Nov, Dec)
- MMMM – full month name, long (like October, November, December)
- y – day of the year
- yy – two digit year
- yyyy – four digit year
- h – hours
- hh – hours with leading zero
- m – minutes
- mm – minutes with leading zero
- s – seconds
- ss – seconds with leading zero
- AMPM – Appends “AM” or “PM” to the time; if this is left off, you get military time
Here are a few examples of how to use these formats for December 1, 2022 at 1:05 PM:
- m/d/yy -> 12/1/22
- h:nn AMPM -> 1:05 PM
- dddd, mmmm d, yyyy -> Thursday, December 1, 2022
- h:nn -> 13:05
Want even more format options? See the complete list of date/time formats directly from Microsoft.
This trick really comes in handy for our European customers trying to get the time and date in a format they are used to. This allows great flexibility to the formats for use and provides a way to display the information in just about any way you can think of.