Such as ‘ mon ‘ or you will have issues when someone like ‘montana’ or ‘solomon’ email you and the rule sees mon in the header. Make sure to Place spaces around the abbreviation. Just so others don’t have the same issues with it.
Hi, is there a way you can set times instead of days? For example from 5pm at night until 0830am the next day? Thanks Hi, I’m not seeing an option for ‘have server reply…’ do I need to enable something for that to show? You should just be able to add in what you want in the main body section, and click save – and anyone emailing in should recieve that same message. You normally don’t have to put anything in the recipeient section. Brandon Kilmosoa Post author Octoat 7:43 pm Reply.Do I have to fill something in the recipient section ? I have just written my message in the body section so far. When I click on “a specific message”, an empty New email window opens.
How to set out of office in outlook software#
You can find out more on the Office 365 forum and maybe something in our Software section. Want to know more about Office 365 and it’s capabilities? Step 11: Once confirmed, all emails that have your day (for us it’s Friday) will have ‘Fri’ in its header and this rule sends the Out of Office on receipt of that email.ĭid this help you? Let us know and we’ll help you! Once confirmed, make sure to hit the ‘Turn on this rule’ and name it something that you like. Step 10: Now you’re on the final screen of the rule, you can review your rule again and make sure everything is looking good. In most cases, this won’t be needed however you can take a look through them and see what’s in them should you want to select any. Step 9: In the next stage, you are given the option to select any exceptions. You can make sure everything looks okay by clicking the underlined blue text in the ‘Step 2’ section at the bottom. Step 8: After completing the above step, you will be taken back to the same window. Again, similar to Step 5, at the bottom, you have the option to select ‘ a specific message’ doing so, will bring up a new option to enter your Out of Office message, just how you normally would. In this new list, select “have server reply using a specific message”. Step 7: The next screen looks very much like the above, however, it does have a few differences. You can just hit “Next” to go to the next screen. Step 6: Once you’ve clicked OK, it will take you back to the previous screen. In this box, you can type in the abbreviation for the day of the week you want this to apply to, for example, we used ‘Friday’ and for the word we want to filter by is ‘Fri’.
If you click the underlined “ specific words”, this will bring up another menu. Step 5: Once ticked and selected, under the list, you should see “Apply this rule after the message arrives with specific words in the message header.”. Office 365 Rules Wizard for Specific Words