How to add and use voting buttons in Outlook

To add voting buttons to an email message, follow these steps:

   1.   In the Message window, on the Options tab, in the Tracking group, click the Use Voting Buttons button:

   2.   Select one of the following:

• Approve; Reject - When you want only approve or reject.
• Yes; No - When you want only a definite yes or a no, this is the best choice.
• Yes; No; Maybe - This voting option offers recipients a third option.
• Custom... - Click this command to create your own custom voting button names.

If you choose Custom, the Properties dialog box opens:

Type your own choices in the Use Voting Buttons text box. Follow the pattern of the suggested choices; just separate your options with a semicolon.

After you apply the voting button, there is a message of You added voting buttons to this message. appearing above message header:

The message will have choices you added:

Note: The maximum number of voting buttons is 32. If you have more than 32 voting buttons in a message, Outlook discards all of them without any warning to the user.

See also how to see the voting results.

See also this tip in French: Comment ajouter et utiliser les boutons de vote.