Steps To Recall A Sent Message In Outlook

Majority of you might be using Microsoft Outlook to send and receive emails. This email program has numerous features that help you to manage your email accounts in a much better way. With these features, it helps you to enhance the efficiency of your business communication.

If you send and receive lot of emails each day, then it is important that you be more careful while working with the email program. For instance, sometimes, you might send a message to a wrong person than to the one you intended. However, if you are using Microsoft Outlook, the program enables you to recall such messages. In this post, we will find out the steps involved in this process.

Steps Involved

• Open the Start menu and click the option All Programs.
• Place the mouse over Microsoft Office and click the option Microsoft Outlook to run the program.
• Once Outlook comes up, choose the folder Sent Items. This folder is present in the left pane of the Outlook window.
• Locate the message that you wish to recall.
• Double click the message and open it. Choose the button Message found at the menu bar of the program.
• Under the section move, select the option called Actions.
• Choose the option Recall this message.
• You have two options to choose. One is the Delete an unread copy of this message and the other is the Delete unread copies and replace with a new message. If you wish to send a new message in place of the old one, choose the second option.
• Mark the option for Tell me if recall succeeds or fails for each recipient. The advantage of choosing this option is that you will be able to find out if the recall attempt was a success. 
• Select the button OK.

With the above steps, you can recall a message sent from the Outlook program. If you have any doubts regarding the steps mentioned above, you may contact Omni Tech Support.