698 Chapter 23 Manage Scheduling
Responding to Meeting Requests.
When you receive a meeting request from another Outlook user, the meeting appears on
your calendar with your time scheduled as Tentative. Until you respond to the meeting
request, the organizer doesn’t know whether you plan to attend.Unaccepted meeting requests in the Reading Pane.You can respond to a meeting request in one of these four ways:
● You can accept the request. Outlook deletes the meeting request and adds the
meeting to your calendar.
● You can tentatively accept the request, which indicates that you might be able to
attend the meeting but are undecided. Outlook deletes the meeting request and
shows the meeting on your calendar as tentatively scheduled.
● You can propose a new meeting time. Outlook sends your request to the meeting
organizer for confirmation and shows the meeting with the original time on your
calendar as tentatively scheduled.
● You can decline the request. Outlook deletes the meeting request and removes
the meeting from your calendar.
If you don’t respond to a meeting request, the meeting remains on your calendar with
your time shown as tentatively scheduled.