Click on the icon to activate that function. The Quick Access Toolbar is the line of icons right at the top of every MS Office program. If you use “Delay Delivery” a lot, add it to your Quick Access Toolbar and save yourself a few clicks. Or if you want to change the time it’s sent, open the message, click on “Delay Delivery” and choose a different time. If you decide you don’t want to send it, open your “Outbox” and delete the message.
Your message will be held in Outlook’s “Outbox” until the designated time for it to be sent. The “Delay Delivery” button on your message will now be highlighted. Once the date/time is as you’d like it, click the “Close” button on the “Delay Delivery” pop-up (or press ENTER on your keyboard). Follow their instructions to change the default day/time. Fortunately, this has bugged someone who had the skill to fix it. Unfortunately, Outlook doesn’t give you the ability to change this default delayed send time. Start a new message, and the date/time will revert back to Outlook’s default These settings will only hold for this message. If you don’t like the date and time Outlook has chosen for you (5pm today), change it to something you would prefer. In the “Delivery options” section, the “Do not deliver before” checkbox will be checked. Outlook users: In your new message, click “Options,” then choose “Delay Delivery.” I’ll let Boomerang help you get set up in Gmail.įor Outlook users, here are your instructions. After that, use the pared-down free version or pay $4.99/month for more features.)
(Try the pro version for free for 30 days. Outlook comes with the ability to delay sending emails. I don’t know if that’s true, but another colleague replies to messages late at night but delays sending them until the morning for that very reason. Why? Because students will come to expect that all of their professors will respond to their email inquiries at 1 am. A veteran colleague recently advised a newly-hired professor to not send students email at 1 am.
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