Meeting request arrives as text

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buck_dekan

I try to send appointments to and from work but the email arrives at both
locations as text with no "Accept" - "Tentative" - "Decline" - etc buttons. I
have tried several cahnges but can not find the right setting. Any help?
 
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Either provide the specifics of what version(s) of Outlook you are using or search this news group archive for the answer posted several times each week.

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After furious head scratching, buck_dekan asked:

| I try to send appointments to and from work but the email arrives at
| both locations as text with no "Accept" - "Tentative" - "Decline" -
| etc buttons. I have tried several cahnges but can not find the right
| setting. Any help?
 
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

You need to force RTF formatting on the external recipient's mail. Double click it, Outlook Properties, change from "let Outlook decide..." to "Always use RTF.."

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, SK asked:

| I am having the same problem using Outlook 2003 from a Microsoft
| Exchange Server. When I send a meeting request to a colleague, it
| has the Accept, Tentative, Decline buttons but not if I send to an
| outside email. Then, it comes in as text (Vcalendar?)
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Either provide the specifics of what version(s) of Outlook you are
|| using or search this news group archive for the answer posted
|| several times each week.
||
|| --Â
|| 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, buck_dekan asked:
||
||| I try to send appointments to and from work but the email arrives at
||| both locations as text with no "Accept" - "Tentative" - "Decline" -
||| etc buttons. I have tried several cahnges but can not find the right
||| setting. Any help?
 
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SK

Thanks for responding. I tried this, but it did not change the outcome.
There still was no option to Accept, Decline etc. I have been successful in
sending the meeting request via an i-calendar but this is somewhat more
inconvenient. Any other ideas?
 
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SK

Ok. I did some digging and found out that this problem stems from the i
calendar feature. On my account, I cannot enable the checkbox 'when sending
meeting requests over the internet, use icalendar format'. It is grayed out.
Any idea why this is and what i can do to change it? Thanks

SK said:
Thanks for responding. I tried this, but it did not change the outcome.
There still was no option to Accept, Decline etc. I have been successful in
sending the meeting request via an i-calendar but this is somewhat more
inconvenient. Any other ideas?

Milly Staples said:
You need to force RTF formatting on the external recipient's mail. Double click it, Outlook Properties, change from "let Outlook decide..." to "Always use RTF.."

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.

After furious head scratching, SK asked:

| I am having the same problem using Outlook 2003 from a Microsoft
| Exchange Server. When I send a meeting request to a colleague, it
| has the Accept, Tentative, Decline buttons but not if I send to an
| outside email. Then, it comes in as text (Vcalendar?)
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Either provide the specifics of what version(s) of Outlook you are
|| using or search this news group archive for the answer posted
|| several times each week.
||
|| --ÂÂ
|| 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, buck_dekan asked:
||
||| I try to send appointments to and from work but the email arrives at
||| both locations as text with no "Accept" - "Tentative" - "Decline" -
||| etc buttons. I have tried several cahnges but can not find the right
||| setting. Any help?
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