out of office message for Outlook

How to Set Out of Office Message in Microsoft Outlook

Setup of Microsoft Outlook AutoReply message in Outlook 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016

You are going to Out of Office for a week or days and you want to Configure Outlook AutoReply out of office message in Microsoft Outlook for new email senders. Here I mention a simple step for out of office reply to sender, follows as below.

Step1: Open Microsoft Outlook 2016

Step2: Create a New mail message 

Subject: Out of Office AutoReply

Message: Thank you for your email, I am Out of Office and I will be back on 01 January. During this period I have limited access to my emails.
For immediate assistant contact me at:

Step3: Click on File Menu and  Save As the name of Out of Office AutoReply and Save as Type is to be Select Outlook Template

Step4: Go to Tools > Click on Rules and Alert  / Home > Rules > Manage Rules and Alert

Step5: Section E-Mail Rules > Click on New Rule 

Step6: Click  " Check message when the arrive " / " Apply rules on message receive " in section Start from a blank rule
Click Next Button

Step7: Click a Check " Where my name as in the box "
Click Next button

Step8: Click a Check " Reply using specific template and go below box Click on a Specific template
Click Next Button

Step9: Select under the box look in " User template in File system " and Select  Out of Office AutoReply (a template file which you save as will use)
Click Open

Step10: Click Next Button on your above screen

Step11: Click  on " except if it is an Automatic reply "
Click Next

Step12: Type " Out of Office AutoReply in Specify a name for this rule " Click Finish Button

Now your new emails are under AutoReply message

How to reset Auto reply out of office message outlook

If you want reset Auto reply out of office outlook Go to Home > Rules > Manage Rules and Alert uncheck under Rules which is Out of Office AutoReply. then Apply and OK

if you are using Microsoft Outlook 2007 go to Tools > Rules and Alert