Due Date and Completed Date Fields on a Contact Follow-Up Flag

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I use Outlook 2000 in Corporate/Workgroup mode. In my Contacts folder I can
set a follow-up flag with a due date, and subsequently mark it completed,
and Outlook clearly stores the due date and the completed date somewhere,
since it displays them in the yellow banner at the top of the contact.

I would like to be able to view those fields in other views, including
tabular views like "View By Follow-Up Flag". I can see the REMINDER time,
but that is clearly not the same thing. (For one thing, it is not cleared
when the follow-up flag is cleared.) There is no "Due Date" or "Date
Completed" field in the list of Contact Fields, either in the Field Chooser
or available through Customize Current View. There is a Due Date field and
a Date Completed field available in the "Task Field" list, but adding those
fields doesn't help at all.

I can't even see the Due Date or Date Completed anywhere in the "All Fields"
tab of the Contact itself. I know the data is stored somewhere, but where?

Can anyone explicate this mystery?
 
I have a similar issue. except I wish to have the completed date show in the column that is available to use to sort emils, "Date Completed" how is this accomplished? it seems counter intuitive that you should be able to see the date completed in the email when viewed in full. yet it doesnt populate the "date completed" field for the viewing pane (im not sure if that was very clear, so to clarify, I mean the protion that displays the sender, subject, date recieved & the like & allows the email to be sorted in ascending order based on certain criteria)
 
I'm confused about whether you're talking about a contact follow-up flag or one for a message. But in any case, flags don't have completion dates, just due dates.
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