Turn Off Tentative Appointments
When others use the Outlook meeting scheduler to invite you to a meeting, your default setting will result in a tentative appointment being placed on your calendar automatically until you have accepted, declined, or deleted it. This prevents you from missing a meeting should you fall behind on your e-mail, but can also clog your calendar with meetings you do not plan to attend. (You can identify a tentative meeting by the striped tag on the left of the calendar entry.)
This is a screenshot of a tentative appointment.
You can change this setting so that Outlook will not place a meeting on your calendar until you have opened the e-mail. The meeting will then remain in a tentative status until you accept, decline or delete the meeting invitation.
Follow these instructions to change the setting:
- On the Tools menu, click Options.
- Click E-mail Options, and then click Tracking Options.
- Clear the Process requests and responses on arrival check box.
- Keep clicking “OK” until you have exited all the dialogue boxes.
This is a screenshot of the Tracking Options.
