How to Save Email Templates in Outlook 2010

Microsoft Outlook 2010 is a full-featured email and organizational program for storing email messages, calendars and contacts. Outlook focuses on improving efficiency and increasing productivity. One common time-waster includes typing long emails, particularly those email messages that are frequently repeated. Outlook offers a solution to this problem in the form of email templates. You can create a template in Outlook with any amount or type of content, then save that template for future use.

Instructions

1. Launch "Microsoft Outlook."

2. Click the "Home" tab at the top of the screen.

3. Click "New E-mail" from the "New Group" section on the ribbon at the top of the window.

4. Type the content that you wish to include in your template into the email body. Include as much static content as possible to reduce the amount of time spent modifying the template for future email distribution.

5. Click the "File" tab at the top of the window.

6. Click "Save As."

7. Click the drop-down menu to the right of "Save as Type," and then click "Outlook Template."

8. Type a name for the template into the field next to "File Name," and then click "Save."

Tips & Warnings

• If you want to save a message to complete it later but don't need to save it as a template, click the "File" tab at the top of the window and then click "Save." This will save your message as a draft.

References

• Microsoft: Save a Message