I don't have the Out of Office Assistant in XP Pro - How to Obtain?

[Guest]

Hello all, I am attempting to define an auto-reply rule
as I'm leaving for a conference tomorrow, but do not have
the Out of Office Assistant option in my version of
Outlook, which is Office XP Professional.

I have successfully defined the rule once before, but
although I created an .oft file in Word and saved it to
the templates folder, it will not browse for the new oft
file and continues to find the file I did in August.

Interestingly, a Windows search for .oft files does not
bring up this August file.

Any tips on how to obtain the Out of Office Assistant?
Or how to update the mail.oft file?

Thanks,

Robby Johnson

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

Out of Office Assistant is an available feature only if you connect to Microsoft Exchange Server as your mail server. If you don't use Exchange Server, you can use Outlook Rules Wizard or one of the third-party automatic rules processing addins. See http://www.slipstick.com/rules/index.htm and http://www.slipstick.com/addins/index.htm .

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming: Jumpstart
for Administrators, Power Users, and Developers