How to remove duration information from retention policy tags in Outlook

By default, Microsoft Outlook appends duration information when displaying retention policy tag names. For example, the 1 Month Delete tag name displays as 1 Month Delete (30 days).

However, in build 16.0.12318.10000 and later builds of Outlook for Microsoft 365, you can remove the appended duration information by setting the registry key that's shown in the following table.

Type	Value
Registry subkey	HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Preferences
Value name	HideRetentionPolicyDuration
Value type	REG_DWORD
Value data	0x1

Note

• Value 0x0 (default): display tag duration information
• Value 0x1: hide tag duration information