Outlook should let me convert an email to a calendar apointment

[Guest]

Setting up atendee lists in Outlook Calendar 2003 can be a tedious process
when there are many people to add and schedule.

Often an email thread warrants a meeting in person. It would be nice to
convert an email message (with To: and Cc: lists) into a calendar apointment,
rather than one by one add people to a new meeting request.



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[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Have you tried dragging the email to the calendar folder?

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[Guest]

At least in O2003, dragging the email to the calendar folder does create a
calendar entry ... but it does not automatically fill in the email recipients
as the invitees for the meeting request you are creating. That is what we
need.

Have you tried dragging the email to the calendar folder?

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Setting up atendee lists in Outlook Calendar 2003 can be a tedious process
when there are many people to add and schedule.

Often an email thread warrants a meeting in person. It would be nice to
convert an email message (with To: and Cc: lists) into a calendar
apointment,
rather than one by one add people to a new meeting request.



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http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...78287&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.calendaring

 

[Brian Tillman]

At least in O2003, dragging the email to the calendar folder does
create a calendar entry ... but it does not automatically fill in the
email recipients as the invitees for the meeting request you are
creating. That is what we need.

How could Outlook possibly know that's who you want to invite without being
able to read your mind?

 

[Guest]

It doesn't need to read my mind ... it just needs to copy the email addresses
from the from:, to:, and cc: fields of the email being copied to the invitees
field in the calendar appointment.

 

[Brian Tillman]

It doesn't need to read my mind ... it just needs to copy the email
addresses from the from:, to:, and cc: fields of the email being
copied to the invitees field in the calendar appointment.

But I don't want it to do that. I make appointments from mail messages and
I invite people NOT listed in the recipient field and do NOT want to invite
the people who are listed there.

 

[Guest]

that's not a problem ... so when you right-click and drag the email to the
calendar, Outlook2003 currently gives me options like "copy here as appt with
text", "copy here as appt with attachment", "copy here as appt with
shortcut", "move here as appointment with attachment", etc. They just need
to add 1 more option: "copy here are appt and invite email recipients".

 

[Sam]

I agree, that would make scheduling meeting with 50+ people a lot easier. MS
totally FAILED on this.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

If you are inviting everyone in the to and cc field, you can copy them from
the email - yes, its an extra step (2 steps if also copying the CC field)
but its not hard either. You can copy right from the reading pane or hit
reply.

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