I have been asked to respond to an email by voting. My outlook 2010 ribbon does not have the vote buttons how do I get the vote commands to show on the ribbon so I can respond?
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I had this problem. I fixed it by double clicking the message, and it opened in a window with the vote button. It turns out I had been reading all my messages in the reading pane (View > Reading Pane) without even knowing it. The reading pane has almost everything the message window does but it doesn't have the vote buttons.
You have 2 options:
When on the overview page in outlook, you can see a preview of the mail and you can click the text "click here to vote" and a popup will appear allowing you to vote.
The other option is to open the mail, and in the second group (Respond), you will see the "Vote" dropdown in which you can chose the option.
This is because you have set your mail compose options to HTML. Go to File - Options - Mail - Compose and change this to Rich text as default. Ask the person to resend the email with the voting options. The vote commands should now show up in your Respond menu.
