How to Take a Vote in Microsoft Outlook

It's easy to create a poll in Microsoft Outlook by including voting buttons in an email message.

Step 1: Create an email message or reply to or forward a message that you received.

 

Step 2: On the Options tab, in the Tracking group, click Use Voting Buttons.

 

Step 3: Choose one of the following: 

Approve Reject - Use when you need an authorization for an action. For example, you can send an email request to several recipients seeking their approval of a project proposal.

 Yes; No - Use when you need either a yes or no. This is a good way to take a quick poll.

Yes; No; Maybe - Use when you don't want to limit the choices to yes and no. This voting option offers an alternative response.

Custom - Use to create your own custom voting button names. For example, you can ask your colleagues to choose a lunch between vegiterian or non vegiterian.

If you chose a Custom voting button, do the following:

In the Properties dialog box, under Voting and Tracking options, select the Use voting buttons check box.

 

Use the default button options, or delete the default options and then type the text that you want, and use semicolons to separate the button names.

Click Close You will get a notification on the top saying that you added voting buttons to this message.

How to respond to vote in outlook?

The receiver of the mail gets an additional message advising them to respond by using the vote button. That Vote button appears to vote for your choice.

 

After you selected your vote a box pops up verifying the poll response, you can also edit if required or click OK.

 

At the same time the sender also received a mail reveling your vote.

How To View Voting Results In Outlook?

An alternate way to track survey responses is to open the original email from the Sent Items folder and click “Tracking” under the Show section.