Are you going away for the weekend? Are you going on vacation for a well-deserved rest? You will therefore not have access to your Outlook e-mail during this period. To inform your employees of your absence, you can use the automatic replies.
Schedule an out of office message in Outlook
- Click on the icon Parameters at the top right of your mailbox, then click on View all Outlook settings.
- Click on Mail and Automatic responses to open the dedicated section.
- Activate automatic replies by clicking on the dedicated button.
- In the text box, enter the automatic reply you want to send to all the correspondents who will try to contact you. If you want only your contacts to be able to receive this away message, check the box Send replies only to my contacts.
- Click on the button Save at the top left to confirm the activation of your absence message.
Now, your Outlook account will automatically send the automatic reply you entered previously as a reply to emails you receive while you are away.
Schedule an out of office message in Outlook during a predefined time range
- Click on the icon Parameters at the top right of your mailbox, then click on View all Outlook settings.
- Click on Mail and Automatic responses to open the dedicated section.
- Activate automatic replies by clicking on the dedicated button.
- Enter the date and time range during which you want your out of office message to be active.
- In the text box, enter the automatic reply you want to send to all the correspondents who will try to contact you. If you want only your contacts to be able to receive this away message, check the box Send replies only to my contacts.
- Click on the button Save at the top left to confirm the activation of your absence message.
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