Teach Yourself VISUALLY™ Outlook® 2007

Save a Message as a Draft

Suppose you are composing an e-mail but you run out of time to finish. Rather than sending it off before it is ready, or losing what you have written so far, you can save the message as a draft. That way, when you are ready to resume writing, you can reopen the message and start where you left off.

Save a Message as a Draft

1.	Compose as much of your message as you have time to complete. [View full size image]
2.	Click the Office button in the message window.
3.	Click Save. [View full size image]
4.	Click the Close button () in the upper-right corner of the message window to close it. Outlook saves the message in the Drafts folder.
5.	When you are ready to resume writing, click the Drafts folder in the folder list. The saved message appears in the message list.
6.	Double-click the saved message to open it in its own window. [View full size image]
7.	Finish composing ...