Displaying the From field in outgoing email (as I compose)

[John Elliott]

Outlook 2003. XP. I have eight different email accounts. I use specific ones
for writing to specific folks (some use joke names). However, despite what my
default is set at, sometimes I end up sending an email to someone FROM the
"wrong" account. This is because while I can see the To:, CC:, and BCC:
fields at the top of my email, I cannot see the From: field unless I go to
the Accounts dropdown.

Is there any way to make the From: field always display in my email as I am
composing it? (So that I know I am not sending an email to someone where it
appears to come from "someone else" (i.e.: a joke "From" name)?

Note: My main account is set as the default. But, *sometimes* I
inadvertantly send an email to a friend and instead of coming from "jelliott"
it comes from "Henrik Ibsen" (for example--an email account I use as a joke
with a few friends.

If the reciever is not one of those friends in on the joke, it's confusing
(and sometimes downright inappropriate) to recieve email from , say, "Henrik
Ibsen."

*If* the From field were displayed at the top of each email I composed, thus--

From:
To:
CC:
BCC:
Subject:

--I could more easily catch those stray times when Outlook 2003 decides for
me to send it from the wrong account.

Right now, however, I have to check the "Accounts..." dropdown each time
before I send. Yet, I've never "caught" the checkmark being next to anything
but my default account.

What's a feller to do?

Thank you for taking the time to read and reply to this query.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Outlook 2003. XP. I have eight different email accounts. I use
specific ones for writing to specific folks (some use joke names).
However, despite what my default is set at, sometimes I end up
sending an email to someone FROM the "wrong" account. This is because
while I can see the To:, CC:, and BCC: fields at the top of my email,
I cannot see the From: field unless I go to the Accounts dropdown.

Please don't multipost.