Planning meetings can be a hassle, especially when you’re bound to different calendars. Fortunately, Outlook lets you schedule your meetings in advance, so you can easily keep track of them.
Microsoft Outlook scheduled meetings, and result in productive outcomes. The outlook is very much convenient for the users and keeps track along with meeting reminders to their participants.
In this article, we will cover all topics “How to schedule meetings in Outlook?“, “How to decline meeting request in Outlook” & “How to accept a meeting request in Outlook“.
Keeping the introduction short, let’s dive into the step-by-step process.
How to schedule a meeting via email?
Schedule a meeting in Outlook with your employee, they receive an invitation email with the meeting details.
Participants can accept or decline your meeting invitation.
Outlook adds the meeting to your Outlook calendar, keeps track of your attendees’ responses, and sends a reminder before the meeting starts.
This basic step-by-step guide walks you through the process of scheduling a meeting.
- Open Microsoft Outlook >> Click Home Tab >> New Items
- Click Metting, [Use Keyboard Shortcut Alt H+I+E], or [press Ctrl+Shift+Q], and you will get an email generation page with a specific function.
It’s time to put up the input data.
- Enter the email address of each attendee according to your list attending the meeting, here we are talking about multiple people, it is recommended to click the To button and select the contents or group in a single click or you can enter manually.
- Enter the Subject, For instance – “Review meeting regarding progress“.
- Location/Venue is important, for instance – “Meeting Hall ‘3’ O/o Managing Director”.
- Choose the date, Start Time, and End time for the meeting.
- If your meeting is designed for the entire day, you can select “All day event“, outlook will not allow you to enter the time now.
- Create your content or message, you can add an attachment with the meeting invitation.
- Click Send.
The meeting invitation by default also includes the right to members in the form of response options, in which they can submit their responses and apply for new time proposals.
If you like to withdraw the new time proposal for the member you can uncheck the option before sending the mail.
How to accept declined meetings in Outlook?
Attendees accept or decline an invitation on outlook by clicking the response button, the result will be transmitted to the sender, and the attendees are also allowed to propose a new schedule.
How the attendee’s email looks like refers to the snapshot.
The Receiver can Accept, Decline, and click tentative vote in (accept decline invitation option) and propose a new time. You can see the date time and venue of the meeting mentioned in the mail.
Cancel Meeting in Outlook?
Due to unavoidable circumstances, the scheduled meeting is required canceled, Microsoft Outlook allows you to cancel the meeting and send a cancelation mail to the attendees.
Please look at the following tutorial.
- Once you scheduled a meeting and send the invitation mail to your attendees, the meeting is saved in your calendar.
- The first step is to open your send box to cancel the meeting in outlook.
- Click the calendar on the meeting tab.
- Your calendar opens and finds the meeting on the calendar and double-click the meeting.
- Double click takes you back to that mail you created, but this time you must cancel the meeting appointment.
- Go to the Meeting tab and click Cancel Meeting. The meeting invitation changes to a meeting cancellation.
- Enter the matter of why the meeting is canceled and click send cancellation.
- All your participants/Attendees received cancellation mail, and the meeting is removed from the calendar.
You can check your send box meeting canceled mail sent to all the participants.
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