In the Create New Building Block dialog box, name the Quick Part, add a brief description, and click OK.Select Save Selection to Quick Part Gallery.From the Message Ribbon, select Insert, and then from the Text group, select Quick Parts.Select the text you would like to save as a Quick Part.This feature works the same in all modern versions of Microsoft Outlook: 2010, 2013, and 2016. To create a Quick Part for text, follow these six steps. If you find yourself typing the same phrase over and over, for example, creating a Quick Part can help automate your message-writing process.
Quick Parts is a feature of Outlook that saves snippets of text or images for quick reuse in future messages. UPDATE (Nov, 2017): SharePoint Properties Panel is back! – The SharePoint Information Panel is the successor to the venerable DIP, and targeted only for Word now.Īll in all, I get the point behind these changes.How to Create a Quick Part in Microsoft Outlook See Microsoft Outlook: Tips and Tricks for similar articles. But if we have to work with only a few of them, I preferred the old way, since it provided a clean way to view what’s important to me, as a user. There are definite benefits of this new experience: it’s cleaner and much easier to view allthe properties of the documents in the same place. You can add them by choosing the Insert / Quick Part / Document Property menu on the ribbon: Of course, these properties can be used in the body of the document in the “old” way. Here, you’ll see all the properties of the document – even the custom ones: What you can use instead, is the File / Info menu, where you have to click on “Show All Properties…” first: If you open the document in Word client, the old Document Information Panel is not available anymore. In Office Online (Word Online), there’s no direct way to edit the document’s properties. Once the info panel is visible, edit the properties right here, and they’ll be applied to the document instantly. To access this information panel, click on the “Info” icon in the top right corner, or “Details” in the document’s context menu. When in the SharePoint document library, the document’s properties can be viewed and edited in the info panel on the right side: