If you don’t have one, check out our guide on how to add an email signature in Outlook. If you have a signature, you might want to paste it below your message. Note: Outlook does not attach your signature when it sends automatic replies. This will be the automatic response sent to people from your company who email you while you’re away. Then set your automatic out of office reply under the Inside My Organization tab.You can skip this step if you want to manually turn off automatic replies when you get back to the office.
Set the dates you’ll be out of the office. Tick the “Only send during this time range” box.
Note: If you are using an older version of Outlook, such as Outlook 2007, go to Tools > Out of Office Assistant. The Automatic Replies window will then appear. Then click Automatic Replies (Out of Office).You can find this in the top left corner of your window. Open Outlook and click File in the menu bar.If you don’t see the words, “Connected to: Microsoft Exchange” at the bottom of your Outlook window, check out our article on how to set up out of office in Outlook with an IMAP/POP3 account. Note: The following steps are for users with a Microsoft Exchange account. Office replies on the Microsoft Outlook desktop app, go to File > Automatic How to Set Up an Out of Office Reply in the Outlook Desktop App Here’s how to set up an automatic out of office reply in the Microsoft Outlook desktop app and the web version. These automatic replies let people who email you know that you are not available to reply to their messages. Open the ‘Put the computer to sleep’ dropdowns and select Never.If you’re going away on vacation, it’s very useful to set an automatic “out of office” reply for your emails.Click Change plan settings next to the active plan.Paste this in the location bar and tap Enter Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Power Options.If you’d like to step away from your system but prevent it from going to sleep, follow these steps. The above fix won’t work if your system goes to sleep which, if you’re using your system, shouldn’t happen. Note: if you lock your system, or it goes to sleep, your status will change to Away. Your Microsoft Teams status will not change to Away while you work in other apps.Open the Clear status message after dropdown and set it to Never.Enter any message you’d like or enter a period/full stop if you don’t want to write anything.Next to the Available status, click Set Status Message.To override or block the Microsoft Teams away status from being set, follow these steps. It is a feature so you can’t remove it but you can set a custom Available status and it will override it. There isn’t any way to change this behavior. If you’re idle on your system for five minutes, or more, Microsoft Teams will change the status. It is counterproductive and almost impossible to remember. Users can’t be expected to switch to the app between work to make sure their ‘Available’ status hasn’t changed. Users are shown to be away or unavailable when they are working. In practice, this feature is pretty awful. This happens automatically and, in theory, this is a good idea because users don’t have to manually change their status. If a user is signed into Microsoft Teams and the app is minimized while they work in a different app, the user’s status will change from Available to Away.