How to Set Out of Office Auto Reply in Gmail

In today’s video, I’m going to show you how to set an out of office auto reply in Google Gmail.

If you’re not familiar with what an out of office message is, it’s basically an email message that is automatically sent to people that email you when you’re on vacation, or off work.

To get started:
1. Open up your browser, and go to gmail.com.
2. Once you arrive in your Gmail account, click on the settings gear icon located at the top right of the screen.
3. A quick settings tab will now open up.
4. Click on the “See all settings” button.
5. You’ll now be taken to this advanced settings page, ensure you’re on the “General” tab.
6. Now scroll down this page until you get to the section that says “Vacation responder”.
7. This is where you’ll want to set up your out of office message.
8. Firstly, ensure you check the “Vacation responder on” setting, this will turn on your vacation responder.
9. Now for the next field, we have “First day”, this is the day that you’d like the vacation responder to start. If you click on the field, you can select any date in time from the calendar.
10. I’m going to select a week out.
11. Now for the next field “Last day”, this field is optional, as you can have the vacation responder turned on indefinitely until you turn it off. I’m going to check the last day box, and define a last day date.
12. Now, for the “Subject” field, this is the subject that will be used for your out of office emails that are sent to people who email you while you’re away. Enter a subject.
13. I’m going to type in something along the lines of, “Out of office until December 7th”.
14. Now in the message field, you can enter any message you’d like. You also have a full text editor to use, which also allows you to insert images into your message.
15. Next, there is a checkbox called, “Only send a response to people in my Contacts”. This checkbox ensures that out of office messages only go to contacts in your Google account. If you don’t check this box, then out of office messages will be sent to anyone who emails you while you’re away.
16. I’m going to leave it unchecked.
17. Now, to finish setting up your out of office message, click on the “Save Changes” button.
18. Congratulations, your out of office auto reply message is now set up. Now, when people email you, they’ll receive your out of office message.

And it’s as easy as that, setting up an out of office message is a fairly easy task to perform.

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