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When you are away from your computer and not checking email messages, you can set up Microsoft Outlook 2007 to send an automatic response to some or all of the people who send you messages. You do this by setting up an "Out of Office" rule using the "Out of Office" Assistant. The Steps: 
Click in the circle beside "Send Out of Office Auto-Replies." Click the check box beside "Only send during this time range." Select the date and time you want the automatic response (auto-reply) to start. Select the date and time you want the automatic response to send. There are two tabs at the bottom: "Inside My Organization" and "Outside My Organization" - you're on the "inside" tab first. Type the text you want to send to others within the Johns Hopkins Outlook/Exchange system.
See an example of the first tab below: 
Do you want to reply to people outside the Johns Hopkins Outlook/Exchange 2007 system? If not, click OK - you're done! If you do, click the "Outside My Organization" tab. Click the box beside "Auto-reply to people outside my organization." If you want to send the response only to persons in your Contacts folder, click in the circle beside "My Contacts Only." Type the text that you want to send to those outside the Johns Hopkins Outlook/Exchange 2007 system. Notice in the example a complete phone number is provided instead of an extension. Click OK.
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