Create voting buttons in a message

- [Instructor] Voting buttons in Outlook are a fun and easy way to get quick feedback without having to create complex forms or do any tabulation yourself. To create voting buttons, from the home ribbon tab, click new email and then address and create the email as normal. I'm going to send this one to myself also. After you've created the body of your email, change to the options ribbon tab, and click use voting buttons. Outlook gives you some default choices but let's click custom.

I can type in my own choices for voting as long as I separate them with a semi-colon. I'll click close and then I can send my email. Since I sent the email to myself, I'll double-click on it to show you what the voting process looks like. Here's where I can read the text in my email. I told everybody what the choices are and Outlook is telling me to vote by clicking vote in the respond group above. Instead of replying, replying all, or forwarding, I'm going to select vote.

Here's where I can see all of my choices that I created. I'll cast my vote, and I can either send the response now or select edit to edit the response before sending if I wanted to include a message. I'm good for now so I'll click OK. And now I can close out of the email. Whenever anybody casts their vote, I'll get an email. There's a few things I can do to see the total amount of votes. I can double-click this email to see the responses. I can see what they responded, however, I can also click the eye with a circle around it and click view voting responses.

This is going to open up a screen where I can see everybody that I sent the vote to, any responses that came in, and when they came in, and at the top, I can see a nice little list of all the totals. When I'm done, I can close out of the response by clicking X in the top left-hand side. And that is how you can easily create fun voting buttons in Outlook.