There are a ton of features in Outlook that many of us frankly never use because we are not aware they even exist. Below is a short 5 minute video put together by our friends at Del Institute that outlines the Outlook advanced email options. Because just talking about advanced email options means very little to most people I have bulleted the main points of for your reference with a quick summary of what they can offer you.

• Importance – Microsoft Exchange Server queues mail for delivery and by setting an email as important it will push that email ahead of normal and low priority mail in queue.
• Voting Buttons – This allows you to specify voting responses in an email so the recipient will only have to click a button at the top of an email to cast their vote. You can then look at the original sent email and see who responded and what their votes were…pretty slick even for simple things like what kind of pizza do people want for the company luncheon.
• Do Not Deliver Before – This is my personal favorite! This allows you to compose a message in advance then set a time and date for it to be sent. The message will stay in your outbox till that time arrives. So let’s say you want to plan some followup emails to clients or team members.. compose the emails in advance and set the Do Not Deliver Before time date – presto you can move on and Outlook will do the rest.
• Have Replies Sent To – allows you to specify other people that will get copies of replies to the email you sent.
• Request a Delivery Receipt – This option will email you when your email is delivery to the recipient.
• Request a Read Receipt – This option will email you when the recipient opens your email.
• Contacts – Allows you to associate an email to a contact
• Categories - Allows you to catagorize an email

Video Provided by our Freinds at Del Institute

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