How do I share individual appointments without Microsoft Exchange?

[Guest]

My husband and I both have Outlook 2003. When I send him appointments from my
calendar, they drop into his calendar; when he sends them to me, I get a
messy text message. Why the difference?

 

[Milly Staples - [MVP - Outlook]]

Outlook Rich Text format missing from the ones he is sending?

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After furious head scratching, Glenda <[email protected]>
asked:

| My husband and I both have Outlook 2003. When I send him appointments
| from my calendar, they drop into his calendar; when he sends them to
| me, I get a messy text message. Why the difference?

 

[Guest]

How do I make sure the 'share' is in RTF?

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

You don't "share" the appointment, you send using Outlook Rich Text Format.
Right click on the recipient address, select Outlook Properties and ensure
it is set to send using Outlook Rich Text Format, not Let Outlook Choose or
Plain Text.

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After furious head scratching, Glenda asked:

| How do I make sure the 'share' is in RTF?
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| "Milly Staples - [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
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|| Outlook Rich Text format missing from the ones he is sending?
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|| Milly Staples - [MVP Outlook]
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|| Post all replies to the news group. Unsolicited mail sent to my
|| personal address will be deleted without reading.
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|| After furious head scratching, Glenda
|| <[email protected]> asked:
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||| My husband and I both have Outlook 2003. When I send him
||| appointments from my calendar, they drop into his calendar; when he
||| sends them to me, I get a messy text message. Why the difference?

 

[Guest]

First problem solved. Thank you. Now when I try to send an appointment, I gat
an error 'Unable to connect to network'. Internet connection is fine.

 

[Brian Tillman]

First problem solved. Thank you. Now when I try to send an
appointment, I gat an error 'Unable to connect to network'. Internet
connection is fine.

Make sure your account settings are correct.

 

[Guest]

I'm sorry, but what account settings? I am sending and receiving email with
no problem. Just a problem when I try to send appointments out of my
calendar. They go occasionally, but mostly not. Cannot see a pattern.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I'm sorry, but what account settings? I am sending and receiving
email with no problem.

OK. At exactly what point does the error occur when you're sending an
appointment.

 

[Guest]

The appointment will not leave my mailbox and it's inconsistent. Could it be
linked to each appointment needing to be checked that it is in RTF format?
The address card is so noted, but when I check individual appointments, some
give Outlook the option to choose the format. It is all very strange because
before I asked the original question, my send format must have been fine
because my husband was receiving from me in RTF. Now I am receiving fine
since he changed to RTF, but have this inconsistency sending.

 

[Brian Tillman]

The appointment will not leave my mailbox and it's inconsistent.

DO you mean it remains in the Outbox?

Could it be linked to each appointment needing to be checked that it
is in RTF format?

Appointments don't have individual formats.

The address card is so noted, but when I check
individual appointments, some give Outlook the option to choose the
format.

At what point does this happen? What do you click just before the choice
appears? What window are you in when you click?

 

[Guest]

I have a similar problem.

When changing details for a Calendar item that has attendees already
invited, it's very common for the update email to the attendees to sit in the
outbox, and I get error 0x800CCC13 "Unable to connect to the network".

The only way I've found to solve the problem is to delete the email from the
outbox, and recreate the calendar entry. But that's a bit messy!

It may be relevant that I have a PDA with Windows Mobile 2003, and
ActiveSync 3.8.0 (build 5004). The PDA handles this task well, but not the
PC.

Thanks,

Robert