Teach Yourself VISUALLY™ Outlook® 2007

Set Up an Out-of-Office Reply

Suppose you will not have access to e-mail for a time — for example, if you are on vacation. You can configure Outlook to automatically send an out-of-office reply anytime you receive an e-mail during your absence, indicating that you do not have access to your account but will respond to the sender as soon as possible.

Set Up an Out-of-Office Reply

1.	In Outlook Mail, click the New button. A new message window opens.
2.	Click the Options tab.
3.	Click Plain Text.
4.	Type the message you want to include in your out-of-office reply. [View full size image]
5.	Click the Microsoft Office button.
6.	Click Save As. The Save As dialog box appears, with the contents of the Templates folder displayed.
7.	Type a name for this message (Out of Office Reply in this example).
8.	Click the Save as Type and choose Outlook Template (*.oft) from the list that appears.
9.	Click Save. Note: If the message window does not close automatically, click its Close () button to close ...