outlook should recognize dates in emails and link to calendar

[Guest]

MS Outlook should recognize dates in email messages so that they can be
clicked on and the calendar scheduler window will pop up prefilled with that
date. If I recieve an email invitation for, say, lunch at 12:30 on Thursday,
the calendar will open upon clicking the date and the upcoming Thursday at
12:30 filled in; the cursor should be in position to type the description of
the lunch/meeting. If the date is not within the upcoming week, most people
will naturally specify the date as, for example, Thursday the 14th. The
month will probably be provided but not needed for Office to pick an upcoming
Thursday that is the 14th. Even the word "next" (Thursday) can indicate to
Office that the Thursday to be filled in is in the following week.
This should be accurate a high percentage of the time.

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[Guest]

Has anyone come up with an answer for this idea yet? I am writing an email
newsletter for a not-for-profit organisation and it would be wonderful to be
able to provide 'diary dates' in the newsletter that can be transferred to
'Appointments' when clicked. Many thanks

Phil

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Create the appointment, save it to your desktop, then insert it into your newsletter.

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After furious head scratching, Phil asked:

| Has anyone come up with an answer for this idea yet? I am writing an
| email newsletter for a not-for-profit organisation and it would be
| wonderful to be able to provide 'diary dates' in the newsletter that
| can be transferred to 'Appointments' when clicked. Many thanks
|
| Phil
|
| "Oktoberfest" wrote:
|
|| MS Outlook should recognize dates in email messages so that they can
|| be clicked on and the calendar scheduler window will pop up
|| prefilled with that date. If I recieve an email invitation for,
|| say, lunch at 12:30 on Thursday, the calendar will open upon
|| clicking the date and the upcoming Thursday at 12:30 filled in; the
|| cursor should be in position to type the description of the
|| lunch/meeting. If the date is not within the upcoming week, most
|| people will naturally specify the date as, for example, Thursday the
|| 14th. The month will probably be provided but not needed for Office
|| to pick an upcoming Thursday that is the 14th. Even the word "next"
|| (Thursday) can indicate to Office that the Thursday to be filled in
|| is in the following week.
|| This should be accurate a high percentage of the time.
||
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|| This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to
|| the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion,
|| click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see
|| the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft
|| Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane.
||
|| http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...77fad&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.calendaring

 

[Guest]

Many thanks for that. It appears to be placed into the Attachments of the
email - which is fine. But I was wondering if a form of hyperlink on the
actual date written in the body of the email could initiate an MS Outlook
Appointment. If that is not possible I shall use your suggestion.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

You would need to place the appointment item on a file share or a web server and use that URL address in your email which would trigger the opening of the appointment item.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Phil asked:

| Many thanks for that. It appears to be placed into the Attachments of
| the email - which is fine. But I was wondering if a form of hyperlink
| on the actual date written in the body of the email could initiate an
| MS Outlook Appointment. If that is not possible I shall use your
| suggestion.
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Create the appointment, save it to your desktop, then insert it into
|| your newsletter.
||
|| --Â
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Phil asked:
||
||| Has anyone come up with an answer for this idea yet? I am writing an
||| email newsletter for a not-for-profit organisation and it would be
||| wonderful to be able to provide 'diary dates' in the newsletter that
||| can be transferred to 'Appointments' when clicked. Many thanks
|||
||| Phil
|||
||| "Oktoberfest" wrote:
|||
|||| MS Outlook should recognize dates in email messages so that they
|||| can be clicked on and the calendar scheduler window will pop up
|||| prefilled with that date. If I recieve an email invitation for,
|||| say, lunch at 12:30 on Thursday, the calendar will open upon
|||| clicking the date and the upcoming Thursday at 12:30 filled in; the
|||| cursor should be in position to type the description of the
|||| lunch/meeting. If the date is not within the upcoming week, most
|||| people will naturally specify the date as, for example, Thursday
|||| the 14th. The month will probably be provided but not needed for
|||| Office to pick an upcoming Thursday that is the 14th. Even the
|||| word "next" (Thursday) can indicate to Office that the Thursday to
|||| be filled in is in the following week.
|||| This should be accurate a high percentage of the time.
||||
|||| ----------------
|||| This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to
|||| the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion,
|||| click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see
|||| the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the
|||| Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the
|||| message pane.
||||
|||| http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...77fad&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.calendaring