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Adding template emails or responses in Outlook 2003.

If I need to ask for certain items, I would like to be able to select from a "standard or template" email, in order to expedite the requesting of information.

How can I achieve this?

Thanks,
JP

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How do I use that for when somone sends me an email. I can't seem to choose a form / template for the reply message.

I could also use a signature, but that does not seem correct.

Thanks,
JP

TheGorby

Well there's really no way to manually reply using a template; however, if you know that these emails you're receiving will contain certain words that other emails you receive will not contain, then you can set up a rule to automatically reply with a specific template (see screen shot). Otherwise, when you received an email you would just manually open the corresponding template and manually enter the sender's address as the recipient.
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So far, using the message as a signature seems to be the only way to manually respond to emails, and use a specific starting point in the email. Weird.

JP

TheGorby

Yep, I'm not sure why Microsoft wouldn't include that functionality but it would seem they didn't. Another option is this 3rd-party add-in, but it's not free unfortunately.

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Unfortunately the template only works for new emails and I am not sure that I can install 3rd party software w/out getting the IT guys involved.

Thanks,
JP