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Adding delegates who can act on your behalf

Adding delegates who can act on your behalf

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Adding delegates who can act on your behalf

- If you are an Exchange or Office 365 user, you may need to create a delegate. That's somebody that can act on your behalf in Outlook. Maybe they need to answer your mail, share your contacts, or create and accept meetings for you. To select a delegate, click the File ribbon tab, make sure you're on the info pane, select Account Settings, and choose Delegate Access. Let's add Leslie Richardson as our delegate so that she can send items on behalf and create meeting requests. I'll click the Add button, and from my address book, I'll choose Leslie's name. Click the Add button and select OK. Now, I need to set the delegate permissions for Leslie. There's three permission levels. The delegate can review items that is read-only. They can become an author of items, that is in addition to reading items, they can also create items. Or, they can be an editor. They can read, create, and modify items. From my calendar, I'm going to make Leslie an editor. She'll need to be able to modify my…

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