Personal and Work Calendar, changing calendar invite

[deadherring]

I have two email accounts configured in outlook--personal and work. The
personal account (pop3) is set as the default account (the work account is
exchange). When I create a new calendar item and want to send an invite to a
work contact the invite comes from my personal account and I want it to come
from my work account.

In email messages there is an accounts button that can be used to set which
account the email will come from but there is no such button on the new
calendar item screen. Is there any way to set which account the calendar
item comes from? Does it have to be defined by the default account? (I don't
want to set the work account as the default account).

Thanks in advance

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

meeting requests always come from the default acct. Make a second profile
for the work acct so it works correctly.

 

[deadherring]

Can you explain how to do this?

Thanks!

meeting requests always come from the default acct. Make a second profile
for the work acct so it works correctly.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Close outlook. control panel, mail. add a new profile. Switching profiles
takes a few seconds and insures the accounts are separate.

Outlook allows you to change the default account in tools, account - which
works as long as you remember to change it back, because while the exchange
acct is default all new mail may be delivered to it.

 

[deadherring]

Thanks--I don't want to have to switch between profiles to manage my
calendar. The other annoying thing is I have to remember is to switch
accounts if I want to send email from my work address. Is there some better
way to manage multiple accounts? Does outlook 2007 do it any better? Is
there a plug in out there I should look at?

Thanks!

 

[Brian Tillman]

Thanks--I don't want to have to switch between profiles to manage my
calendar. The other annoying thing is I have to remember is to switch
accounts if I want to send email from my work address. Is there some
better way to manage multiple accounts? Does outlook 2007 do it any
better? Is there a plug in out there I should look at?

What's so hard about training yourself to choose the correct account?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

The best method is to keep personal in OE or other client and biz in
Outlook. Outlook will reply using the acct the message arrived on, so
replies aren't a problem. New mail will always use the default acct. Are you
using Outlook 2003? If so, and if you use word as the editor, add a sig to
every message as a reminder to which acct is sending the message - as long
as you use a different sig for each account it can be enough to remind you
to change the acct. But you need outlook 2003, word as the editor and a sig
assigned to every account.

If you can at least remember to choose a template or click a button when you
want to send mail using the other acct, you can make a template that has the
sending acct preselected and assign it to a toolbar button.