Outlook 2007 Won't Add Appointment where Sender = Self

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Outlook 2007 is preventing me adding appointments to its calendar when the
sender is myself.

When I am at a customer's, I create an appointment for myself on the laptop
and "Invite" my home email address. When I get back to my home office, they
should all be accepted and sitting in my calendar.

In Outlook 2007, they're not. If I try to drag one from my inbox to my
Calendar I get an inane message saying "You do not need to respond to this
meeting because you are the organiser."

Yeah. I knew that. Now: How do I persuade Outlook 2007 to go ahead and
add the meeting to my calendar?

I sometimes wonder how highly-paid application designers can be so stupid...

How do I work around this infuriating bug?
 
Hi Brian:

I am not sure why you are asking a question that was answered in my original
post?
 
John McGhie said:
I am not sure why you are asking a question that was answered in my
original post?
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Because I missed it. Sorry. I guess I don't have any suggestions.
 
No prob. I wish you did :-)

That's what's wrong with this stupid "Rating" system: Nobody's reading my
question because the system makes me look like the expert when I am actually
the questioner.

Sigh... I hate badly-designed automation...
 
Dumb suggestion John

add the appointment to your mobile phone and when you get back to the
office, synchronise it??

I hope this helps you at least a little bit!

Judy Gleeson
MVP Outlook
Outlook trainer and author of Productiv_IT with Outlook
www.acorntraining.com.au
Canberra, Australia

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual
way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of
complaining.
Jef Raskin, interviewed in Doctor Dobb's Journal
 
Hi Brian:

Yes, I was too lazy to add this group to my newsreader for what I thought
was going to be a simple question/answer. The web interface will barely cope
with a single interchange: it's hopeless if you want to continue a discussion
:-)

Cheers
 
Thanks Judy:

That would work well, if I had the sort of phone that synchs. However,
after far too many disasters of wiping out my calendar and address book
trying to synch between office, home and phone, I made a policy decision some
years ago that I was out of the Personal Organiser in the Phone game :-)

Maybe I should revisit that decision. :-)

But it's so nice to get a ten-day battery life and be able to work on my
calendar while talking on the phone (because the phone is on my ear, not the
calendar...)

It just seems to me that the inability to add a meeting if you created it is
such an obvious bug they should get it fixed soon. Or someone will find a
work-around :-)

Where are you? I thought you were already on your way north?

Cheers
 
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