- [Instructor] Outlook comes with something
called an @mention.
If you want to get someone's attention in an email message
or a calendar invitation,
you can type the @ 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 @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 @mention, put in the @ symbol.
And now, a list of of all 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 @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 @mention
because of the 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 right where it says By Date
and change the filter to Mentioned Mail.
It's going to change the view
so that only messages I've been mentioned in can be 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.