Use Sharepint Approval Workflow to update column in list item

Good afternoon all,
I am working in SP / SPD 2007.
I have set up a standard SP Approval workflow for a new list I am working with.
The workflow assigns tasks to the approvers serially and works fine so far. It sends to the first approver. upon approval it sends to the second approver. Upon approval the workflow marks the workflow column in the "All Items" view as "Approved"
All is well to this point.
My question is this. Can I append an action to this workflow? I have a separate "Status" column. All new items are initially marked "Pending Approval".
I would like that column to be changed to "Approved" upon completion of the approval workflow. I need this separate column for audit purposes as it includes several other important statuses that we track thoughout a request lifecycle. I just want
to automate the updating of this column via the approval workflow.
Any thoughts?
Steve
Steve Connelly

Hi Steve,
We can archive this simply in SharePoint 2010, but for SharePoint 2007, we can to create custom approval workflow.
Here are 2 workarounds for you.
Create a custom approval workflow with Visual Studio.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc627283(v=office.12).aspx
Use an InfoPath Form instead.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc627286(v=office.12).aspx
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