How to turn on Out of Office in Microsoft Outlook
Follow our simple guide to turning on automatic notifications in Outlook One of Microsoft Outlook's most useful features is the ability to...
2 min read
Follow our simple steps to turn off automatic notifications in Outlook
Microsoft Outlook enables your mailbox to send automatic notifications to any internal or external emails received to your mailbox. If you are returning to the office after a period off work then this quick guide with give you the steps needed to turn the notifications off and ensure your clients don’t receive any notifications that are out of date.
For The New Outlook Desktop App
1. Open the Microsoft New Microsoft Outlook desktop app.
2. From within MS New Outlook click on the "settings" (cog) icon at the top right of the window
3. Click on "Automatic Replies"
4. Click on the toggle switch that says Automatic replies on
This will disable any automatic out-of-office emails being sent from your Mailbox.
For The Old Outlook Desktop App
1. Open the old Microsoft Outlook desktop app.
2. From within old MS Outlook, access the File Menu located in the top left of the screen.
3. Click on the “Automatic Replies (Out of Office)” section.
4. From the Automatic Replies menu, click on the radio button for “Do not send automatic replies”.
This will disable any automatic out-of-office emails being sent from your Mailbox.
In your chosen web browser, sign into the Outlook Web App using www.microsoft365.com using your Microsoft 365 username and password.
1. From the Office 365 Launcher choose “ Outlook”.
2. From the Outlook Web App, click on the settings (cog) icon at the top right of the screen
3. From the Settings menu, click on “Automatic Replies” which will load the Automatic Replies menu.
4. From the Automatic replies menu, click on the radio button for “Automatic replies on” and this will disable Automatic/Out-of-office replies being sent from your account.
1. Open the Outlook app
2. Swipe from the left-hand side of the screen to the right
3. Click the cog icon at the bottom left of the screen
3. Tap “Automatic Replies”.
4. Toggle the switch to turn off Automatic Reply.
1. Open the Outlook mobile app.
2. Either click Turn Off at the top or if this is not visible, click your initials or picture at the top left.
3. In the bottom left, click the “Settings” (gear) icon.
4. Select "Automatic replies"
5. Click “Automatic Replies”
6. Click the slider to disable automatic replies.
IT Foundations can manage services like this for you on your behalf. If you need us to help look after your Microsoft 365 apps then contact us today.
Microsoft Teams(work) makes the dreamwork
Become more productive and collaborative An introduction to Microsoft Teams, the productivity and collaboration platform included with Microsoft 365...
Really useful Microsoft 365 tips
Microsoft 365 is the most popular of all major office productivity software. It has 48.8% of the global market share, just edging out Google’s apps,...