Meeting request arrives as text

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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?
 
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?
 
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?
 
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?
 
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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