send appointment in CC without adding it to their calendar

[Guest]

I often need to create an appointment and inform others of it, without having
it added to their calendars.

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[Brian Tillman]

I often need to create an appointment and inform others of it,
without having it added to their calendars.

Send them the announcement in a mail message, not as an appointment.

 

[Guest]

Send them the announcement in a mail message, not as an appointment.

<g> - why would I want to do a work twice??

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Or forward the full appointment to them as an iCalendar item.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Guest]

Or forward the full appointment to them as an iCalendar item.

hmmm - what would be most intuitive to you? the same "look & feel" like an
email, or converting to iCal, attaching in email and have everyone import the
element by hand?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

None of the above. I'd use:

1) Actions | Forward as iCalendar

2) Dear <person not invited>, I didn't include you on the meeting request but thought you'd want to have the information on this meeting anyway. You can add it to your Outlook calendar by opening it and clicking Save.

3) Address and send.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Brian Tillman]

<g> - why would I want to do a work twice??

So you don't get unintended side-effects.

 

[Guest]

1) Actions | Forward as iCalendar

2) Dear <person not invited>, I didn't include you on the ...
3) Address and send.

that sounds nice, but involves 2 steps. Why can't you agree that ONE step
would be more intuitive?? I was posting a feature request, to make outlook
"even more" usable. Thanks for your work-around anyways. I'm just not into
doing "manual" work, if the computer can do it for me.