If they accept the appointment you send with the recurrence already entered
and with a reminder, they do not NEED to enter each recurrence. It is
entered for them. And the reminder will pop up for each instance. I don't
understand what you think you will accomplish by bombarding people with
emails when the recurrence will remind them each time.
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
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After furious head scratching, TanaMary asked:
| I'm sure that, "as a heavy user of outlook" it would be annoying. The
| problem is, most of the people I work with are, in effect, computer
| illiterate. It wouldn't occur to them to actually enter the
| recurring date in their calendar, nor would they know how. My goal
| was to enter it into mine and generate an automatic e-mail to all of
| them for each meeting so I wouldn't have to do it each time and we
| wouldn't have to go searching for them all twice a week to start the
| meeting.
|
| Apparently, Outlook will not be of assistance.
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| No, the meeting that they would have received with the recurrence
|| would not generate a new mail for each meeting. The meetings and
|| recurrences should show on the user's calendar and if a reminder was
|| added, this would be the only notice they would receive.
||
|| How annoying to receive an email for an item already in the calendar
|| - as a heavy user of Outlook, it would be a major annoyance.
||
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|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
|| the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my
|| personal account will be deleted without reading.
|| ||| I understand using the recurrance option. I did that. The problem
||| was, I assumed that when I used my distribution list in the "to"
||| line, they would get an e-mail for the next meeting. They didn't.
||| I did add the distribution list AFTER I initially scheduled the
||| recurring meeting, so I wasn't sure if that was the reason or if
||| the capability is just not there.
|||
||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|||
|||| When making the meeting invitation, use the recurrence option to
|||| set up future recurring meetings. If they are not all on the same
|||| day/place/time, you can use a tool such as
||||
http://www.websetters.co.uk/WSAddIns/Repeat Appointment/ to set
|||| up the recurrences.
||||
|||| --ÂÂ
|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due
|||| to the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my
|||| personal account will be deleted without reading.
||||
|||| After furious head scratching, TanaMary asked:
||||
||||| I set up a recurring meeting and put a distribution group in the
||||| "to" area. The first e-mail went out no problem excpet that I
||||| don't need the "accept" box. It's a mandatory meeting. However,
||||| we hand another meeting today and the e-mail message did not go
||||| out to the "invitees". Of course, the appointment showed up on
||||| my computer, but no one else's. Is there a way of scheduling a
||||| recurring meeting or appointment and have the message auto sent
||||| to the distribution group? I don't have administrative authority
||||| so I can do any ADMIN set ups.
|||||
||||| Thanks.
