Out of Office Assistant is an available feature only if you connect to
Microsoft Exchange Server as your mail server. If you don't use Exchange
Server, you can use Outlook Rules Wizard or one of the third-party automatic
rules processing addins. See http://www.slipstick.com/rules/index.htm and
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/index.htm .

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
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Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
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> I'm trying to set up an automatic response for "Out of Office" and the
> option does not show up under tools - where is it?
>
> Thanks
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