Set out of office with Out of Office Assistant using Exchange Account
If you are using an Exchange account, you can auto reply a specified message for the received emails with setting the Out of Office Assistant while you are away. Please do as follows:
1. Click File button in the upper-left corner in outlook 2010, and click Info > Automatic Replies, see screenshot:
1. Click File button in the upper-left corner in outlook 2010, and click Info > Automatic Replies, see screenshot:
If you do not see this Automatic Replies option, your outlook have not connected to an Exchange Server.
2. In the Automatic Replies dialog box, select the Send automatic replies:
[1] Check the Only send during this time range, and then specify the Start time and End time you need to auto reply the message.
[2] Then type your message at the space box.
2. In the Automatic Replies dialog box, select the Send automatic replies:
[1] Check the Only send during this time range, and then specify the Start time and End time you need to auto reply the message.
[2] Then type your message at the space box.
3. If you want to send auto-reply message to external senders, click on the Outside My Organization tab and check the Auto-reply to people outside my organization option. See screenshot:
Set out of office with Out of Office Assistant using Exchange Account
If your outlook haven’t connected to an Exchange Server, the above method will not work. In this situation, the Manage Rules & Alerts function of Outlook can help you to set out of office auto reply as following steps:
1. Click Home > New E-mail to create a new message, type the subject and message as you need. See screenshot:
1. Click Home > New E-mail to create a new message, type the subject and message as you need. See screenshot:
3. And then click Save to save the message.
4. Then click Home > Rules > Manage Rules & Alerts, see screenshot:
4. Then click Home > Rules > Manage Rules & Alerts, see screenshot:
5. In the Rules and Alerts wizard, click E-mail Rules tab, and select the email account that you want to apply the out of office setting from Apply changes to this folder, and then click New Rule.
6. In the Rules Wizard, click Apply rule on message I receive from the Start from a blank rule section.
7. Click Next button, check sent only to me from Which conditions do you want to check?
8. Go on clicking Next:
[1] Check reply using a specific template from What do you want to do with the message?
[2] Then click a specific template hyperlink in the Edit the rule description section.
[3] And a Select a Reply Template dialog box will appear, select User Templates in File System from Look in drop down list, and then click Browse button to choose the folder that you put the auto-reply message, and the message you created just now have been inserted. Then click Open to finish this step, see screenshots:
[1] Check reply using a specific template from What do you want to do with the message?
[2] Then click a specific template hyperlink in the Edit the rule description section.
[3] And a Select a Reply Template dialog box will appear, select User Templates in File System from Look in drop down list, and then click Browse button to choose the folder that you put the auto-reply message, and the message you created just now have been inserted. Then click Open to finish this step, see screenshots:
9. Go on Next, in this Are there any exceptions step, you needn’t check any item.
11. And then click Finish button to finish setting this auto reply rule. And when you receive some emails next time, the Outlook will reply them automatically at once.
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If you have installed Kutools for Outlook, please do as this:
1. Click Kutools > Auto Reply > Enable Auto Reply to active this option.
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If you have installed Kutools for Outlook, please do as this:
1. Click Kutools > Auto Reply > Enable Auto Reply to active this option.
2. After turning on the Auto Reply function, and click Kutools > Auto Reply > Auto Reply Manager to open the Auto Reply Manager.
In the manager, please check the Account Name that you want to apply this function. You can also edit the subject and auto reply text as your need. See screenshots:
3. Then click OK button, the auto reply setting has been successfully set up.
NOTE: If you want to turn off the Auto Reply function, you just need to click the Enable Auto Reply, and the Auto Reply will be in the closed state. See screenshots:
NOTE: If you want to turn off the Auto Reply function, you just need to click the Enable Auto Reply, and the Auto Reply will be in the closed state. See screenshots:
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