my name appears instead of the sender's, but only in my inbox

[Arron Metcalf]

I have Outlook 2003 and all of a sudden, any incoming email that enters my
Inbox, displays only who the email is to (usually me) instead of who it's
from. For example: if I receive an email from my friend Tim Highfield, in
the
Inbox column, there should be a message header which has the envelope icon
and "Tim Highfield" next to it, with the subject underneath, and the date on
the far right. But instead of "Tim Highfield", my name appears instead! Or
more precisely, the name of the person Tim sent it to, namely me.

But what is equally weird is that when I move the message into another
folder, it then does what it's supposed to do and puts Tim's name (the
sender's name) at the top instead of mine. I've tried running the "Detect
and
Repair" feature under "Help", running the SCANPST.EXE program on the
Outlook.pst file, and adjusted the "Arranged by" feature in Outlook every
which way (to my knowledge); all without success. I've got the latest
version
Norton Antivirus too and have performed a full system scan, also without
success. I'm not a novice computer user, but not a computer science
graduate,
so I figure there might be something technical I'm not aware of that's gone
pear shaped. Just to see whether it was just Outlook, I ran Outlook Express
and that worked fine.

Has anyone come across this problem before? What did you do about it? I'd
greatly appreciate any suggestions not already mentioned.

Kind regards

Arron

 

[Mex]

Try going "view-->Current view-->customize current view-->fields and make
sure you have the "from" field added to your list and in the order you want
it to be seen in your inbox. Each file "inbox, sent ect," can be set up to
the view you prefer. I have outlook 2002 so the process may be alittle
different than yours but I'm sure very similer .