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When cancelling a meeting, the option for not notifying participants is gone
I have found a solution to this to avoid making myself look like a dunce.
Open Outlook. Select "Send/Receive" at the top left. Select "Work Offline." When that box is highlighted, you are offline.
Go to the calendar event. Cancel the meeting and send the cancellation. Now go to your Outbox and delete the cancellation message. Voila.
Now you can go back online.
why would you need this feature? i don't get it
i managed to cancel a meeting series with no notification is sent and i'm struggling to remove it for the invitees
why would you need this feature? when you cancel a meeting you should notify everyone and remove it from their calendar
nola You're a genius! Worked like a charm. Thanks for the assist!
cstewart2350 It does not work actually, you can read my reply above.
- Tried this, but removing the outbox message will not remove the meeting from others' calendars in fact. I also tried to cancel the meeting via Teams, there will still be a cancellation email sent to the attendees.
Haven't found a good way to cancel without notifying everyone yet..- Wow. All it did was remove the meeting from my calendar. That is really sad and unfortunate. Thanks for letting me know. I guess the people who developed Outlook, don't use Outlook.
The whole point was to remove a meeting that was declined by the other participant from your own calendar without sending a further cancelation notice as the other participant has declined. That you have to jump through hoops to do this is crazy. That the new Outlook interface has no easy way to go offline makes it even more necessary to remain on the older version to be able to continue to work-around removal of a useful function.
