"asdf" wrote in message ...

Milly Staples wrote ...

asdf asked:

| have Outlook XP SP3 running on WinXP Pro with SP2.
|
| When i view an appointment invitation that was sent to be in the
| preview pane for some reason outlook automatically adds the
| appointment (tentativelly) to the calendar. Adding it to your
calendar as tentative gives you the option of accepting or
declining. It is the default behavior. What do you expect the
behavior to be?

I want the default behavior to be for outlook not to add anything to
my
calendar unless i add it there myself.

Then click the Decline button.

You don't understand. Outlook adds stuff to my calendar even
if all i do is preview it. I click on the invitation, it displays in the
preview pane. Then when i go to my calendar the appointment is
already there, although only tentatively. I have to manually
delete it. Why is it there if all i do is preview it.

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Milly Staples wrote ...

asdf asked:

| have Outlook XP SP3 running on WinXP Pro with SP2.
|
| When i view an appointment invitation that was sent to be in the
| preview pane for some reason outlook automatically adds the
| appointment (tentativelly) to the calendar. Adding it to your calendar
as tentative gives you the option of accepting or declining. It is the
default behavior. What do you expect the behavior to be?

I want the default behavior to be for outlook not to add anything to my
calendar unless i add it there myself.

Then click the Decline button.

It puts it there to tell you that you have an appointment that you need to attend to, either to send an accept or decline. If it didn't and you have a huge inbox, you might not get to the appointment item until after the appointment time has lapsed. This way, it shows in your calendar, and when you realize you know nothing about that appointment, you have the chance to go back to your in-box, open (or preview the appt.) and accept or decline.

--�
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, asdf asked:

| You don't understand. Outlook adds stuff to my calendar even
| if all i do is preview it. I click on the invitation, it displays in
| the preview pane. Then when i go to my calendar the appointment is
| already there, although only tentatively. I have to manually
| delete it. Why is it there if all i do is preview it.
|
| "Vanguard" wrote in message
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|| "asdf" wrote in message ...
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||| Milly Staples wrote ...
||||
|||| asdf asked:
||||
||||| have Outlook XP SP3 running on WinXP Pro with SP2.
|||||
||||| When i view an appointment invitation that was sent to be in the
||||| preview pane for some reason outlook automatically adds the
||||| appointment (tentativelly) to the calendar. Adding it to your
||||| calendar
|||| as tentative gives you the option of accepting or declining. It
|||| is the default behavior. What do you expect the behavior to be?
|||
||| I want the default behavior to be for outlook not to add anything
||| to my calendar unless i add it there myself.
||
|| Then click the Decline button.

but i already know that i need to attend to it. I'm previewing it. Or maybe
i'm not ready
to either decline or accept it yet.

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
wrote in message
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It puts it there to tell you that you have an appointment that you need to
attend to, either to send an accept or decline. If it didn't and you have a
huge inbox, you might not get to the appointment item until after the
appointment time has lapsed. This way, it shows in your calendar, and when
you realize you know nothing about that appointment, you have the chance to
go back to your in-box, open (or preview the appt.) and accept or decline.

--�
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, asdf asked:

| You don't understand. Outlook adds stuff to my calendar even
| if all i do is preview it. I click on the invitation, it displays in
| the preview pane. Then when i go to my calendar the appointment is
| already there, although only tentatively. I have to manually
| delete it. Why is it there if all i do is preview it.
|
| "Vanguard" wrote in message
| ...
|| "asdf" wrote in message ...
|||
||| Milly Staples wrote ...
||||
|||| asdf asked:
||||
||||| have Outlook XP SP3 running on WinXP Pro with SP2.
|||||
||||| When i view an appointment invitation that was sent to be in the
||||| preview pane for some reason outlook automatically adds the
||||| appointment (tentativelly) to the calendar. Adding it to your
||||| calendar
|||| as tentative gives you the option of accepting or declining. It
|||| is the default behavior. What do you expect the behavior to be?
|||
||| I want the default behavior to be for outlook not to add anything
||| to my calendar unless i add it there myself.
||
|| Then click the Decline button.

asdf wrote:

but i already know that i need to attend to it. I'm previewing it. Or
maybe i'm not ready
to either decline or accept it yet.

Outlook simply does not work the way you want it to work. When you view a
meeting request, it will always show in the calendar.
--
Brian Tillman

but doesn't it seem strange that it would work this way.
This feature seems more like a bug to me.

"Brian Tillman" wrote in message
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asdf wrote:

but i already know that i need to attend to it. I'm previewing it. Or
maybe i'm not ready
to either decline or accept it yet.

Outlook simply does not work the way you want it to work. When you view a
meeting request, it will always show in the calendar.
--
Brian Tillman

No, it is as designed. Just because you think it should not place it in your calendar, does not mean that everyone else thinks the same way. For others, seeing where the appt. falls in relation to the rest of the work day/week before accepting or declining makes perfect sense. It gives the recipient the full view of their working day/week in order to make a decision.

--�
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, asdf asked:

| but doesn't it seem strange that it would work this way.
| This feature seems more like a bug to me.
|
| "Brian Tillman" wrote in message
| ...
|| asdf wrote:
||
||| but i already know that i need to attend to it. I'm previewing it.
||| Or maybe i'm not ready
||| to either decline or accept it yet.
||
|| Outlook simply does not work the way you want it to work. When you
|| view a meeting request, it will always show in the calendar.
|| --
|| Brian Tillman

In news asdf typed:
You don't understand. Outlook adds stuff to my calendar even
if all i do is preview it. I click on the invitation, it displays in
the preview pane. Then when i go to my calendar the appointment is
already there, although only tentatively. I have to manually
delete it. Why is it there if all i do is preview it.

That's already been explained.....it does this automatically. If you
*decline* the request it will disappear.



"Vanguard" wrote in message
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"asdf" wrote in message ...

Milly Staples wrote ...

asdf asked:

have Outlook XP SP3 running on WinXP Pro with SP2.

When i view an appointment invitation that was sent to be in the
preview pane for some reason outlook automatically adds the
appointment (tentativelly) to the calendar. Adding it to your
calendar
as tentative gives you the option of accepting or declining. It
is the default behavior. What do you expect the behavior to be?

I want the default behavior to be for outlook not to add anything
to my calendar unless i add it there myself.

Then click the Decline button.