- [Instructor] Outlook comes with something called
an at mention.
If you want to get someone's attention in an email message
or a calendar invitation,
you can type the at symbol followed by their name.
Their name will be highlighted in the message,
and it will add them to the to line of the email.
A convenient thing about this
is that you don't need to remember their email address.
This is what an at mention looks like.
Let's create one.
I'll create a new email and address it as normal.
I'll add a subject line and type in the body of my email.
To use the at mention, put in the at symbol
and now a list of all the people
in your contacts will come up.
I'll include Sharon.
Sharon automatically gets added
to the to field in the email.
I can also hit the Delete key on my keyboard
to remove some characters and just leave her first name,
which is a bit more informal.
Now I can hit the space bar
and continue typing the body of my email as normal.
I'll click send and off goes my email with the at mention.
In this email, I can see that I've been called out
so I need to pay special attention to what she's saying
at this particular part of the email.
In the message pane,
I can also tell that the email contains an at mention
because of the at symbol right here in the message view.
If I want to see any and all messages
that I've been mentioned in,
I can click where it says by date
and change the filter to mentioned mail.
It's going to change the view
so that only messages that I've been mentioned in are seen.
This way, I'll never have to worry
about missing any messages
that are calling special attention
to something that has to do with me.
At any time, I can click the down arrow
and change it back to all mail.