Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2007 Inside Out

Voting in Outlook

Another feature in Outlook 2007 that takes advantage of Exchange Server is voting. The Outlook 2007 voting feature is useful when you want to solicit input from a group of message recipients. Perhaps you are looking for approval on a proposal, you are holding an informal election in your organization, or you just want to get the group’s input on an issue.

With the voting feature, you solicit and tally votes from the group. Outlook 2007 provides predefined voting responses, but you can also create your own. In this section, you’ll learn how to include voting buttons in messages, tally returned votes, and configure voting options.

Here’s how voting works in general: You create a message containing the question or document on which ...