It checks your email’s subject and body text length, the number of questions included, and the overall reading level. That way, when someone receives your meeting invite email, they can easily pick the time that works best for them.Īnother feature-Respondable-uses AI to determine the likelihood an email will get a response. It embeds a visual grid of your availability into meeting-request emails into emails-and the grid stays up to date even if your schedule changes after you send the request. It lets you schedule an email to send at a later date and time, pause your inbox when you need to focus, so you’re not distracted by incoming emails, and schedule a follow-up reminder when you send an email so you don’t forget about it.īoomerang also makes it easier to get meetings scheduled.

Using these criteria, we narrowed the list down to the following 22 add-ins for Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, all of which are free unless otherwise noted:īoomerang adds a ton of useful features to Outlook. We wanted to highlight apps that anyone can use, so we excluded those that are specific to third-party tools.īroad Use Cases: There’s a lot you can do with apps and add-ons without leaving Microsoft’s interface-find restaurants on Yelp, search Wikipedia, and buy flowers-but we wanted to focus on the types of apps you could realistically use daily.Īll 365 Applications: We only included apps that work for all Office 365 subscription types (Home, Student, and Business).

Some of the add-ins have paid upgrades, but the basic features described for each add-in are free to use.īroad Audience: Many available apps and add-ins are for specific programs like Salesforce, HubSpot, or Trello-they require the use of a third-party program. To simplify things, we looked through over 100 of the highest-rated apps for each product (Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), installed and tested 47 add-ins that stood out for their different features, and narrowed the results down using the following criteria:įree: There are a lot of promising paid apps available for Office products, but we wanted to focus on the best free add-ins. There are over 2,000 add-ins for Microsoft Office 365-and more that only work on specific versions of Office for Windows and Mac. How We Selected the Featured Microsoft Office Add-ins

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