Team and Enterprise plans are also available. When billed annually, the Personal plan runs $5 per month, and the Pro plan $15. You can get limited access to Boomerang’s basic features for free.
The Pro plan offers other advanced features, such as adding sentiment, politeness, and subjectivity analysis to the writing assistant. You can pause all incoming emails or, with the Pro plan, only let emails containing certain keywords or from a specified domain or person through. (Click image to enlarge it.)īoomerang helps you schedule meetings by embedding a table of potential times in an email - recipients can click on the times that work for them. Howard Wen / IDGĪmong other features, the Boomerang for Outlook add-in can send you a reminder if there is no reply to your email. You can also tag an email you’re sending with a reminder to notify you on a later day and time you choose, so you can follow up on it. For: Outlook (requires a Microsoft 365 or account)īoomerang adds a lot of features to Outlook, including read receipts, click tracking, an AI-powered writing assistant, and the ability to schedule an email to be sent at a later time or on another day.Microsoft provides online help describing how to manage the add-ins installed on your Office apps. To see your installed add-ins in an Office app, go to Insert > Add-ins > My add-ins. Once you’ve installed an add-in to an Office app, it typically appears at the end of an existing Ribbon tab (such as the Insert tab) or as a new Ribbon tab with its own set of commands. (You’ll be first directed to sign in to your Microsoft Office account if you haven’t already done so in your web browser.) Click the Open in Word (or whichever Office app applies) button, allow the link to open, and click Trust this add-in in the right sidebar to complete the installation.
(Click image to enlarge it.)Ĭlick any add-in name to go to its description page, then click the Get it now button to install it. To see more detailed information about add-ins, go to Microsoft AppSource. You can also use the filters in the left panel to find apps with certain categories or that work with Excel, for instance. To install an add-in via AppSource: Alternatively, you can go to the Microsoft AppSource site and browse or search for add-ins. When you find an add-in you want to install, click its Add button, read its licensing terms and privacy policy (you may need to check a box saying you agree to the terms and conditions), and click Continue to install it. The quickest way to find and install add-ins is via the Office Ribbon. You can then browse or search for add-ins to install. The Office Add-ins panel will open over the screen. In Outlook, you click the Home tab to access the Get Add-ins button at the end of the toolbar.) In the desktop apps, you may need to click Insert > Add-ins > Get add-ins. (In the Office web apps, the button is called simply Add-ins. On the Ribbon toolbar above the document, click the Insert tab and then click the Get Add-ins button. To install an add-in via the Office Ribbon: Open a document or start a new document.