is there a way to use MSOL to put emails into "suspense"

[BurtOD]

is there a way to use MSOL to put emails into "suspense" for later action?
Burt

 

[dlw]

you can put them into folders, assign them to categories, mark them for
followup, what exactly do you mean by suspense?

 

[VanguardLH]

is there a way to use MSOL to put emails into "suspense" for later action?

Sure. Hit Ctrl+S to save a copy in the Drafts folder. Then go watch a
movie and come back later to reopen it and then send it.

Putting an e-mail into "suspense". Gee, I never thought that I could
mesmerize an e-mail to become antsy. Guess I haven't been yelling "Boo!"
loud enough to catch its attention. Maybe if I ran at the computer monitor
while wildly waving my arms and screaming I could get it into suspense.


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And DETAIL the steps to reproduce the error or problem.

 

[Tom Willett]

Google for suspense file.

: BurtOD wrote:
:
: > is there a way to use MSOL to put emails into "suspense" for later
action?
:
: Sure. Hit Ctrl+S to save a copy in the Drafts folder. Then go watch a
: movie and come back later to reopen it and then send it.
:
: Putting an e-mail into "suspense". Gee, I never thought that I could
: mesmerize an e-mail to become antsy. Guess I haven't been yelling "Boo!"
: loud enough to catch its attention. Maybe if I ran at the computer
monitor
: while wildly waving my arms and screaming I could get it into suspense.
:
:
: --- Posting Hints ---
:
: ALWAYS REVIEW your message before submitting it. You want someone OTHER
: than yourself to understand your post. Also remember that no one here is
: looking over your shoulder to see at what you are pointing. If you don't
: well explain your situation by providing the DETAILS that you already
know,
: don't expect others to know what is your situation. Explain YOUR
computing
: environment and just what actions you take to reproduce the problem.
:
: Often you get just one chance per potential respondent to elicit a reply
: from them. If they skip your post because you gave them nothing to go on
: (no details, no versions, no OS, no context) then they will usually move
on
: to the next post and never return to yours.
:
: What is Usenet:
: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsgroups
: http://www.masonicinfo.com/newsgroups.htm
: http://www.mcfedries.com/Ramblings/usenet-primer.asp
:
: When using a webnews-for-dummies interface (e.g., Microsoft's Communities,
: Google Groups, or a leech site using a forum-to-Usenet proxy), those are
: gateways to Usenet. Despite the pretense of a forum, you are
participating
: in a newsgroup (aka Usenet).
:
: How to post to newsgroups:
: http://66.39.69.143/goodpost.htm
: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
: http://users.tpg.com.au/bzyhjr/liszt.html
: http://www.mugsy.org/asa_faq/getting_along/usenet.shtml
:
: Regarding error or status messages:
: - Do NOT omit the message.
: - Do NOT describe the message.
: - Do NOT summarize the message.
: - Do NOT paraphrase the message.
: - Do NOT truncate the message.
: - Do show the ENTIRE message (but munge or star out personal info,
: like your username in an e-mail address but not the domain).
: And DETAIL the steps to reproduce the error or problem.

 

[VanguardLH]

Tom Willett wrote:

VanguardLH wrote ...

: BurtOD wrote:
:
:> is there a way to use MSOL to put emails into "suspense" for later
:> action?
:
: Sure. Hit Ctrl+S to save a copy in the Drafts folder. Then go watch a
: movie and come back later to reopen it and then send it.
:
: Putting an e-mail into "suspense". Gee, I never thought that I could
: mesmerize an e-mail to become antsy. Guess I haven't been yelling
: "Boo!" loud enough to catch its attention. Maybe if I ran at the
: computer monitor while wildly waving my arms and screaming I could get
: it into suspense.

Google for suspense file.

Not a very good search, was it, or did you not even try using your your own
criteria to check what would be the results? Before suggesting that someone
uses an online search, you should actually check if that advice works and,
if so, provide the search criteria (since you claim that there is some good
criteria that would find the relevant articles). Since this is an Outlook
group, a better search would be:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=+outlook++"suspense+file"

or maybe using Bing since maybe Microsoft might be bent to their products:

http://www.bing.com/search?q="suspense+file"

Now look at those results. Nothing promising there. Now lets narrow the
search since this is supposedly a Microsoft "feature":

http://www.google.com/search?q=site:support.microsoft.com+"suspense+file"

Nothing found. Then do a search at Microsoft's Office site:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/help/FX100485361033.aspx?pid=CL100605171033
enter "suspense" for all products

The one hit that comes up says it is for soft Office Access 2003, Excel
2003, and Project 2003, not for Outlook, and it mentions suspense accounts,
not suspense files. Now go search Microsoft's knowledgebase (all products,
http://support.microsoft.com/search/?adv=1) and you get:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/888003

along with the prior Office article. Not about Outlook, are they?

Yep, that was very helpful advice from you. Yeah, go do a search but don't
verify that anything can actually be found. So is a a "suspense [file]"
really an feature or issue with a released version of *Outlook*?

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]]

is there a way to use MSOL to put emails into "suspense" for later action?

You mean "suspension" or "abeyance". Assign a follow-up flag.