Vote - Using Email

Vote!

On the eve of the national election, here’s a tip to allow you to vote – not for the Candidates – but for various decision-making using email. Using Microsoft Outlook, you can track the responses of many recipients by simply creating a tracking option to vote.

Let’s say you send a message to eight people on a committee requesting them to decide which date to hold a meeting.  All eight people may respond with a message.  Rather than receive eight individual messages with various text, the sender will receive the votes of each person.   Each person can click on A, B, or C.

To create this Voting feature, the sender does the following:

1.       Create the Message

2.       Click Options

3.       Select the use voting buttons check box (middle of the dialog box)

4.       Type the voting button names you want to use in the box.

The default voting options are:

·         Approve; Reject

·         Yes; No

·         Yes; No; Maybe

You can even create your own voting button names:

For example:  Small, Medium, Large, Tues, Wed, Thurs, or Obama or Romney

To create your own voting button names delete the default button names, and then type any text you want. Separate the text with semicolons.

5.       Click Close

6.       Click Send 

For more information, check out: http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-outlook/archive/2009/06/13/living-in-outlook-voting-buttons.aspx