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Compose Tools for Outlook

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Last reviewed on September 16, 2019     1 Comment

The following pages are a collection of mail utilities for Microsoft Outlook that don't fit any of the categories listed under More Information. There is a separate page for each type of utility and those who don't fit within the four main types of utilities are under Mail Tools for Outlook. If you are still using the older exchange clients or Windows Messaging, available tools are listed at Mail Tools for Exchange Client and Windows Messaging.

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Quick Templates

Quick Templates is designed for fast insertion of text templates into Microsoft Outlook mail messages. Use it to enter frequently repeated text fragments, reducing the time you spend on message writing as well as typos or misprints in your messages. With Quick Templates you can create a template list and insert the text from template into a message by a single mouse click or through a hotkey you can set for each template individually.

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4Team Reply With Templates

Tool integrated to Microsoft Outlook e-mail toolbar allows you to reply or forward e-mail with a predefined template. Create a new template as easily as a new e-mail or use your existing e-mails as templates. Personalize Replies. Preaddressed templates. Send personally (separately) or to all recipients. Organize email templates into subfolder structure to get a quick access to your e-mail Templates. Share your e-mail templates.

Always Bcc

Sperry Software's Always BCC add-in for Outlook is being released for Outlook 2010. The add-in automatically adds a CC/BCC email address to all outgoing emails - making it perfect for compliance reasons. It can also include a cc or a bcc based on conditions you set up, for instance if you are sending from a particular account. The add-in now works with both 32-bit and 64-bit Outlook.

Audio for Outlook

This tool provides Audio at your fingertips. It's very easy to include audio: 1) Record, 2) Play - if needed to verify your recording, and 3) Send. The audio file will automatically be added to the mail during send. Outlook is already one of the most important tools in your daily work life and having an Audio option nearby is just plain efficient and convenient.

Auto Follow Up

Auto Follow Up automatically sends email follow up messages when a contact failed to reply to an email after a specified period of time. Users can choose to follow up emails when the message is composed or they can select an already sent email and enable follow up for it. Auto Follow Up supports a variety of follow up options. The user can specify how long to wait for a reply before triggering the follow up email, enter the email content of the follow up message, choose how many follow up emails to be sent and how long to wait between them, select to be alerted or not, and more.

ChooseFrom 365 for Office 365

Office 365 mailbox may have multiple SMTP addresses and receive mail sent to any of the secondary addresses but Exchange Online always uses the primary SMTP address for sending messages. ChooseFrom 365 application allows Office 365 users to send a message with any of their own SMTP addresses as the From address. New feature: multiple display names associated with a single SMTP address. The application is a cloud service.

ChooseFrom for Exchange

Exchange server mailboxes can have multiple SMTP addresses and receive mail sent to any of these addresses but Exchange will always use the primary SMTP address for sending messages. ChooseFrom allows users to send a message with any of their SMTP addresses as the From address.

ConfidentSend

ConfidentSend is an add-in for Microsoft Outlook 2003/2007 to remove hidden data & metadata from email attachments. ConfidentSend is able to remove 39 types of potentially confidentiality compromising hidden data from 18 file types, including Microsoft Office documents (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), OpenOffice.org / StarOffice documents, PDF documents, and popular image and media file types such as JPEG, PNG, and SVG.

CoolDraft Flow

This flow ensures that the message created with the second mailbox's From address stay in the mailbox that it originated from after saving (i.e. it will be placed to Drafts folder of the second mailbox if you click Save). Example: An Outlook user has access to shared mailboxes (usually "Info", "Sales" etc). They create a new message and select a shared mailbox address as the From address. When they click on the Save button, the draft is saved in their personal Draft folder, not in the Draft folder of the shared mailbox. The Flow saves the draft in the correct folder.

CoolDraft for Microsoft Outlook

CoolDraft is an outlook utility to save Draft messages in the Drafts folder of a shared mailbox.

Email Templates

Exchange/Outlook add-on to create custom replies, forwards, signatures -- inserting any type of boilerplate text into your message. Templates are stored in Outlook or Exchange folders and can contain scripting elements (in VBScript or ET's own script language) to build replies that use information from the incoming message. Various extensions can handle such tasks as mailing list subscriptions. For a rotating quote, download the Rotating Text template. Has some issues with Outlook 2002 -- make sure you get the latest update, disable RTF templates, and don't try to use ET as a custom action in Rules Wizard.

EmailMerge Pro for Outlook

Create and send personalized individually addressed e-mail messages using an easy Wizard in Outlook - plain text, HTML or rich text. Your recipient list can be in Outlook, Exchange Global Address Lists, Excel or Access files. You can use Categories or Distribution Lists to keep mailing lists. You can even defer and batch send your emails to get around ISP restrictions. Outlook based solution for e-mail newsletters, business announcements and sales & marketing emails. Supports Outlook 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013 and 2016 (32 and 64bit).

InsertText 4Outlook

InsertText reduces the time it takes to write and respond to emails while also increasing the accuracy. InsertText gives you the fastest way of creating and using templates/pre-written responses in Microsoft Outlook. Write templates that you can reuse later or insert repeated text/graphics fragments or create new emails directly from templates. Much more than just copy & paste and easy to use even if you have hundreds of templates. Your templates can include email specific fields such as the message, Subject, To, CC and BCC fields. Works inside Outlook and from the System Tray. Version 3.0.20

Message Assist

Message Assist is an Outlook Add-in that automates and accelerates the process of everyday email tasks. Message Assist allows you to compose, reply, forward messages, insert phrases, insert pictures and files, compress attachments and file messages with a single click.

Message AutoFill

Create rules for filling TO, CC, BCC and SUBJECT fields of new message based on the folder where the original message is stored. Add-in allows to use different settings for different folders. The fields you don't want to change will remain the same. It only allows automatic address management, while message body remains intact. Works with Microsoft Outlook 2000 and up, fully compatible with Microsoft Exchange Server public and shared folders. Part of the MAPILab Toolbox.

Messageware Mail Forms

Empower your front-line staff to send more powerful and effective emails, with minimal effort, directly from Outlook (desktop/web/mobile) on all devices. Enforce professional standards, improve staff productivity and reduce training time. Mail Forms is a Microsoft Outlook / Office Add-in for Office 365 and Exchange Server. Mail Forms will appeal to line of business divisions with call centers, sales groups and support organizations that regularly send emails and documents to their customers. Free trial on the website.

Outlook Voice Recorder

Use Outlook Voice Recorder to send a voice message. Easy to use: Click on a button and record an MP3 voice message. You can also optionally convert your voice message to text using Google or Bing Speech to Text services.Perfect for tablets or laptops with small keyboards.

PayPal Payment Wizard

Add PayPal buttons -- payment request, product, service, auction payment, and donation to Outlook messages.

Personalized Emails 4Outlook

Email Merge Personalized Individually Addressed Invitations, Greetings and Sales Letters at the click of a button. Supports Outlook 2000,2002, 2003 and 2007, with or without Word as Editor.

Quick Text Hotkeys

Sperry Software's Quick Text Hotkeys, an Outlook add-in that inserts predefined text into emails, has been upgraded to allow full HTML font capability. Text insertions can now be in any HTML format, or the text can take on the appearance of the currently selected font. In addition, text insertions can now be done by toolbar buttons shown when composing an email (for convenience the function keys are still available). This new version is only for Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010, both 32-bit and 64-bit.

Reply To All Monitor

Reply To All Monitor is an Outlook add-in that prompts when you click reply to all, preventing you from making potentially embarrassing mistakes. It also (optionally) removes your own name from a reply to all and can also warn you if you are going to perform a reply to all on a message that you were BCC'ed on, preventing you from "spilling the beans". It has been updated to work with Outlook 2010, and works in both 32-bit and 64-bit.

ReplyAll

ReplyAll is a free tool that alerts you when you hit the 'Reply To All' button in Outlook and asks if you really want to send to all. Works with all versions of Outlook: 2000 - 2013. Free.

ReplyButler

ReplyButler is a productivity tool that automatically pre-writes the greeting phrases (with the correct name. The text module storage saves time for anyone who answers customer e-mails. It can automatically answer e-mails for you. ReplyButler also helps you organize your e-mails by automatically moving your answered e-mails into the right folders. And if you forget an attachment, ReplyButler will remind you. Works with Microsoft Outlook 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007 and Outlook 2010 (32-Bit). Version 4.00 supports the plentyMarket webshop system.

ReplyWithAtt

In Outlook for Windows, when we reply or reply all to the email with attachments, the attachments are not available and we have to add them manually. A lot of people want to retain attachments when they reply or reply to all. This add-in allows a user to reply to a message and include the original attachment. Version 1.0.7 is just released. Small bugs have been fixed.

RightFrom for Outlook

RightFrom automatically fills in the correct From address when the user is responding to a message in another user's Exchange mailbox. Also RightFrom utility can associate the signatures with the mailboxes. When John Doe navigates to Sales mailbox and clicks the "New message" button, the From: field will be populated automatically with "Sales" and the salesperson (non-default) signature will be added to the message automatically too.

Scan & Attach

Add a "Scan & Attach" button to new Outlook emails and replies. When the button is clicked the scanner begins the scanning process. The scanned image will then directly be attached to the Outlook email as a (multi page) PDF, TIFF, JPEG, PNG or BMP file. A second button opens a full blown image editor. All the options you need to adjust or reorder the scanned images before attaching them to the Outlook email are there. Now supports 64-bit Windows and Outlook 2010.

SelectSender

SelectSender is a tool for Office 365 users who need to send mail from different addresses. This utility allows an Office 365 OWA user the ability to easily select the From address of the new, replied or forwarded message. SelectSender can be used only in cooperation with ChooseFrom 365 cloud service.

SetFrom COM Add-in for Outlook

Outlook COM add-in that lets you automatically insert in the "From:" or "Have replies sent to:" field any address/alias that you need for each outgoing message. If you're mainly concerned with getting From right when replying to mail from another user's Exchange mailbox, RightFrom, from the same author, would be more appropriate.

SetSensitivity for Office 365

Problem: users who have full access to the shared mailbox do not see emails sent as "private". The emails are just silently hidden by outlook without any further notice. If you open the same mailbox in OWA, you will see any private email. SetSensitivity changes sensitivity flag to "Normal" for any message delivered to a shared mailbox. After that the message is displayed normally in Outlook.

SilentMail for Outlook

SilentMail for Outlook monitors outgoing emails and sends a blind carbon copy (BCC) of every email to a specified address. SilentMail for Outlook does this by copying the message from the Outbox mail folder, making the monitoring process invisible for the user. Supports all versions of Outlook. Does not require Exchange server.

Template Phrases

Insert frequently-typed phrases into your Outlook messages in a click. See all your templates at a glance organized in a multi-level tree structure and easily find the needed one with quick search. Use various macros, assign shortcuts to most often used templates or add them to Favorites. Have a certain template automatically inserted into all new emails, replies or forwards. Share your templates on a network server and let your colleagues use them. The plugin works with Outlook 2003 - 2010.

Topalt Emoticons for Outlook

Topalt Emoticons for Outlook add-in adds a one click button to your Microsoft Outlook email compose window. Next time you need to say something special or funny, simply open the drop down box and choose the smiley face that helps you get your message across.

More Information

  • Content Control Tools
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  • Distribution List Tools
  • Fax Tools -- includes tools for scanning documents into Outlook items
  • Junk Mail Tools
  • Mailing List Tools
  • Notification Tools
  • Security Tools -- Some of these also provide message tracking.
  • Signature Tools -- including random quotes

  • Microsoft Outlook Message Form Samples -- more sample message forms
  • CNET Downloads -- Many additional sources for Outlook stationery and mail notification utilities, among other things
  • OL2000: How to Broadcast Mail Using Outlook
  • EMail Checkers for Windows NT - Workstation
Compose Tools for Outlook was last modified: September 16th, 2019 by Diane Poremsky

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About Diane Poremsky

A Microsoft Outlook Most Valuable Professional (MVP) since 1999, Diane is the author of several books, including Outlook 2013 Absolute Beginners Book. She also created video training CDs and online training classes for Microsoft Outlook. You can find her helping people online in Outlook Forums as well as in the Microsoft Answers and TechNet forums.

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sreelatha
July 5, 2019 3:09 am

Nice blog.thank you for sharing...

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