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New Outlook Mail Templates – Demo + Step-by-Step Guide
New Outlook now includes a fully updated Mail Templates experience that supports images, tables, links, and modern formatting — unlike the older My Templates add-in. You can also import OFT files and even forward templates to colleagues using Forward as OFT.
A few important notes for anyone upgrading from Classic Outlook:
- Templates created, revised, or saved in New Outlook are cloud-stored only
- These templates do not appear in the Classic Outlook Templates folder
- New Outlook templates cannot be used in Classic Outlook
- If you want a local copy for backup, the blog post below includes a simple download method
If you're migrating from Classic OFT templates or evaluating the new workflow, these two resources walk through the entire process:
📌 Full video demo:
https://youtu.be/uC0ZkCQyJuc
📌 Step-by-step blog guide:
https://traccreations4e.com/new-outlook-email-templates/
Hope this helps anyone exploring New Outlook’s modern template workflow. Feel free to share it with your team. Many users have been waiting for this feature before entirely switching to New Outlook.
#traccreations4e-p25 11/17/2025
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Please put the Email Template option back on the ribbon or allow the following:
1. Many times, I don't know if I want to use an email template until AFTER I already started typing (or opened) an email draft. So then, I have to delete the email draft, go back out and click the New Mail drop-down. This is too many un-productive time-consuming steps.
2. How do I now reply to a message using a template?
At least let us add (or one-click copy) the template to the current email draft from within Manage Templates.
And what does Add OFT mean?
It would be nice if you guys tested out proposed feature changes on your consumers and got our feedback before implementation. Also, you guys also tend to make simple tasks too overly complicated or don't explain things (like the acronym above), requiring a steep learning curve for us users.
