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Microsoft Outlook Webmail

Working with the Out of Office Assistant

Outlook Webmail has an Out Of Office Assistant, which will send an automatic response to email when you are away. This response can be personalized, and will send only once to each person who emails you (no matter how many messages from the person you receive).

• Turning On the Out of Office Assistant
• Turning Off the Out of Office Assistant

Turning On the Out of Office Assistant

You can turn the Out of Office Assistant on indefinitely (until you choose to turn it off), or for a set span of time.

1. On the toolbar, click OPTIONS
   The Options screen appears. 

2. From the Navigation pane??, click Out of Office Assistant

3. Under Out of Office Assistant, select I'm currently out of the office

4. In the AutoReply only once to each sender with the following text scroll box, type the message you would like to have sent in reply to incoming messages

5. Click SAVE AND CLOSE
   Your Out of Office message is now set.

Turning Off the Out of Office Assistant

When you return after an absence, it is important to turn off the Out of Office Assistant. 

1. On the Outlook side bar, click OPTIONS
   The Options screen appears. 

2. Under Out of Office Assistant, select I'm currently in the office

3. Click SAVE AND CLOSE
   Your Out of Office message is turned off.