Atlanta Mission uses Outlook.com for all internal and external email communication. You can create an instant, real time poll in seconds within an email message. Once you send the message, recipients vote directly in email or click on a handy included link and vote in a browser window. You can then quickly check poll results in the voting card.
This article describes how to send an email a poll and how to check the results. To learn how to create, reply to, or forward email messages, click here.
1. While in a new message, click the bar chart icon on the menu.
2. Scroll down in the menu and click More Options.
3. Enter the question that you'd like to poll your email recipients about.
4. Enter the different options the recipients can select.
5. If you need to add additional options, click + Add option.
6. If you'd like your recipients to be able to select multiple options, click the toggle by Multiple answers.
7. Press Next.
8. Click Add to email.
9. Click X.
Polls has automatically set your subject line and added your poll directly into the body of the email. It may not look like a poll yet, just a link. As long as you're sending to folks who use outlook, they will see a fancy beautiful poll directly in their email.
10. Click Send.
Your email recipients have received the poll in their email and are now able to vote! You can also view the results right from within your email by clicking view results.
