Canned answer from Outlook

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Technical stuff today. How to set up a canned response (from Outlook 2007, in my case).

Open up Tools>Macro>Visual Basic Editor, double click ThisOutlookSession, and paste this (or similar) in...

Public Sub CannedResponseInfo()
'Insert text
Set objDoc = Application.ActiveInspector.WordEditor
Set objSel = objDoc.Windows(1).Selection
objSel.TypeText Text:="Hello," & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & _
      "Thank you for bla bla bla " & _
      "And bla bla bla." & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & _
      "Bla bla ispum florum diddle doo," & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & _
      "Yours," & vbCrLf & vbCrLf & _
      "Slartibartfast"

'bonus: insert attachment
Call item.Attachments.Add("C:\Users\Public\Documents\topsecret.pdf")
End Sub

What can you do with it?
Well, in Outlook 2007, you can 'Customize the Quick Access Toolbar', and call the macro from there.

This is not the same as an 'out of office' reply, which goes to anyone who sends a mail.

In this case, when I hit 'reply to', I have three different 'canned replies' ('yes', 'no' and 'it will cost you'), which fill out the text, and add the attachment. Crucially, the macro doesn't send the mail, so I can modify it by hand, and then send it.
In previous versions of Outlook, I imagine you have to do something like customizing the toolbar (right click), or just call the macro 'manually', via the tools->macros menu (or something like that - cf here).