Setting up an Away Message/Out of the Office Feature

[asba]

We are not currently set up to automatically send and
receive messages on a schedule, but are willing to do so
when we are out of the office so that we can send a
return message that we are out of the office.

We have tried the Help option - that tells us to go to
Tools than click Office Assistant, however there is not
an office assistant tab.

We have Microsoft Outlook 2002.

Thanks - Jeanne

 

[Ann Shaw]

Hi Jeanne

I had the same problem when I tried this and it turns out
that I did not have the assistants installed. Also, I
think I needed to have Microsoft Exchange running in order
to use this feature.

Hope this helps.

Ann

 

[Michael]

Jeanne,

You probably have Outlook set up as internet mail only.
Office assistant is a feature in Exchange. I recebntly
found this article on how to emulate this in regular
Outlook. Search for Microsoft Knowledge Base Article -
311107. Hope this helps.

Michael