Sometimes I want to decline meeting invitations I receive in Outlook 2007 but keep the meetings on my calendar. That way, I have a reminder of when people who are attending won't be free. However, whenever I click "Decline," the meetings and invites disappear.
I'm aware of the Delete meeting request from Inbox when responding option, but I don't want the invites to stay in my Inbox; I only want the calendar events.
I'm also aware of two workarounds, but neither one is very good. Using "Tentative" instead of "Decline" could be confusing for other attendees, and creating a dummy event on my local calendar could be annoying if there are lots of changes to the event time.
Ideally, these events would be marked as Free on my schedule, but since this is for my own reference, that's not a requirement. How can I set this up?
Best Answer
Here's how you do this in Outlook 2010:
These are the same steps that Microsoft says in Show a declined meeting on my calendar.
These steps only work when you just received the meeting invite. It will be difficult to find the meeting invite for declining one occurrence of a weekly meeting that has been running for a while.