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Responding to Meeting Requests

Meeting Request

When other people in your group want to invite you to a meeting, they will send you a meeting request. A meeting request arrives in your Inbox.

To respond to a meeting request:

  1. To open the meeting request, in your Inbox, click the meeting request.
  2. Complete one of the following tasks:

    Option Description
    Accept Click this button to add the meeting to your calendar. Others looking at your schedule will see that your are busy during the time of the meeting.
    Tentative Clicking this button also adds the meeting to your calendar. However, others looking at your schedule will see you only have a tentative engagement.
    Decline Click this button and the meeting will not be added to your calendar.
  3. A message window will open, addressed to the sender of the meeting request. If you want to add additional recipients to your meeting response, fill in the To and Cc fields.
  4. (Optional) In the text box, type a message. For example, you can explain why you are or are not attending the meeting.
  5. Click Send or Don't Send Response.
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