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Unable to edit Outlook Meeting's body text (I'm not the organizer).
Indeed terrible. The body of the appointment is whatever the organizer decided to include. As a participant, I have my own preferences of what should be in the body of that meeting. And sometimes it is an appointment made by somebody else on by behalf, and I get an invite, but I am the only person participating in that activity. Yet I cannot edit a single thing.
Basically, I will stop accepting other people's meeting requests and copy/paste the contents into my appointment and edit it to my liking. This defeats the whole purpose of collaborating through the application, and everybody puts more effort into maintaining their own calendar.
This should be fixed by now. We are on Current/Monthly channel and no longer on Semi-Annual. The feature has definitely hit Monthly channel. When you open a meeting, there should now be an "edit meeting" button in the Meeting Occurrence ribbon. The only caveat is that if the meeting organizer sends an update to the meeting, you will lose your changes.
As of 4/1/25 it appears not to be fixed, I still see no 'Edit meeting' button option in the 'Meeting Occurrence' tab section. View screenshot below. Am I missing something here? Looking in the wrong area?
Try "Commands not in the Ribbon" instead.
I thought we still had to customize the ribbon to get that button to show. I have found that the button can disappear when an update is applied.
Oh that's right...I forgot all about that being a custom button. Mine hasn't disappeared even after an update or a profile rename in Outlook. I'm going to go back to Microsoft and ask if (1) they plan on making that a permanent part of the ribbon and (2) if anyone has reported issues of having it disappear. Stay tuned...
