my version of Outlook does not have the out of office assistant, so I am
trying to use the rule wizard to do basically the same thing. Meaning
replying to every new message, once the rule is activated, with a standard
"out of office" message.

See http://www.howto-outlook.com/faq/oooa.htm

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"joe" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> my version of Outlook does not have the out of office assistant, so I am
> trying to use the rule wizard to do basically the same thing. Meaning
> replying to every new message, once the rule is activated, with a standard
> "out of office" message.