Quick Outlook question

[BG5150]

I am constanly typing this in my e-mails:

"Let me know if you have any questions, or if you need anything else."

Is there a way to create a macro or assign a key combo that will type that snippet when I need it, instead of typing it all out?

[Ron Weasley]

This looks like it should work: http://www.xtremevbtalk.com/showthread.php?t=83913

But I would suggest changing your text to "because I'm smarter than you, you will have questions. Please feel free to submit them to allow me to demonstrate my superiority."

Okay, I wouldn't really do that, but that's why I post here!

[Fuzzy]

How 'bout if you just make it a "signature" and include it in all of your emails or insert it when you need it?

[IMP]

Originally Posted by Fuzzy

How 'bout if you just make it a "signature" and include it in all of your emails or insert it when you need it?

[Phil]

Are you using Word as your email editor? If so, you can add an autotext entry to word, which will also be available whenever you're writing an email message.

To do so, go into Word and open a new word document. Tools menu ==> Autocorrect Options... Go to the Autotext tab and type that phrase into the listbox. Save the document to hard disk as any name, quit word, then delete the document from your hard disk (but Word will still remember the new autotext entry)


Then, forever after, as soon as you type " L e t" a popup tooltip will appear "Let me know if you have any questions, or if you need anything else". Press enter to accept it.

This will appear in email or in word itself.

This tooltip will also appear if you begin typing "Lettuce", "Let x = 10", etc. Just keep typing if you don't want the autotext to fill in. Press Ctrl-Z if it does appear and you did not want it.

Let me know if you have any ques.. ah, forget it.

[TooOldForThis]

Another approach is that you can set up more than one signature in Outlook, with one of them set up as a default.

When you write a new e-mail, you can right-click on your signature and a list of all your signatures will pop up. You can then select the signature you wish to use.

This way you can select your "Let me know..." or an alternate closing signature.

[llcooljabe]

can't you create an autocorrect? I used to do that. make an acronym out of it and add that acronym ot the autocorrect list.

Of course, this assumes that you're using word as your editor.

[BG5150]

Originally Posted by llcooljabe

can't you create an autocorrect? I used to do that. make an acronym out of it and add that acronym ot the autocorrect list.

Of course, this assumes that you're using word as your editor.

For some reason, auto-correct does not work in replies, just original e-mails.

And I'm not a big fan of signatures; I think they are obtrusive in internal e-mails and aren't always necessary if I am just making a quick reply or sending something informal outbound.

[llcooljabe]

Originally Posted by BG5150

For some reason, auto-correct does not work in replies, just original e-mails.

And I'm not a big fan of signatures; I think they are obtrusive in internal e-mails and aren't always necessary if I am just making a quick reply or sending something informal outbound.

Probably because replies are not in HTML? Change the reply from Plain text to HTML before typing, and it should work.

There may even be a setting to force all your replies to be in HTML

[E]

Another approach would be to set up a template that you could launch anytime you know you want the specific text in the email.

http://sysdev.uncc.edu//HowTos/Outlo...%20Outlook.htm