Just to be clear, I'm hoping to see the date on recent emails, where currently I can only get Outlook to display, "today","yesterday,""Tuesday," "Monday". Which requires me to do little math problems when looking up older emails or documenting received dates.

I think I lost you on the last step. The received column is already there. It defaults to "arrange by date." You said to "adjust the breaks," but I'm not sure what that entails. I can increase the number of lines displayed for each email, but no number of lines makes a received date appear for recent emails (only non-numeric descriptions of the date appear on recent emails).