If allowed by the meeting organizer, you can also click “Propose New Time,” which lets you propose an alternative time for the meeting in another dialog box that opens. The meeting is not placed into your Calendar when you decline it. Clicking “Decline” informs the organizer you cannot attend the meeting. The meeting is then moved into your Calendar, as if you had accepted it. Clicking “Tentative” informs the meeting organizer you are tentatively planning to attend the meeting. It also moves the meeting into your Calendar. Your choices are “Accept,” “Tentative,” “Decline,” or if allowed by the meeting organizer, “Propose New Time.”Ĭlicking “Accept” informs the organizer you will attend the meeting.
If viewing them in the “Meeting” window, they also appear at the top of the message but also appear in the “Respond” button group on the “Meeting” tab in the “Meeting” window. If you are viewing the meeting response in the Reading Pane, the buttons appear at the top of the message.
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You must then choose how to respond to the meeting. To respond to a received meeting request in Outlook, either click it once in the “Inbox” pane to select it and then view it within the “Reading Pane” or double-click the meeting request to open it within its own “Meeting” window. When you are invited to a meeting in Outlook, the invitation, which is called a “Meeting Request,” appears in the “Inbox” of your Mail folder. This lesson shows you how to respond to meeting requests in Outlook.
Respond to Meeting Requests in Outlook: Overview