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[–] 185 points 1 week ago (84 children)

Doesn’t all that go to your calendar?

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    [–] 100 points 1 week ago* (13 children)

    Don't forget the correlary. Cancelled meetings remain on your calendar and still trigger reminders and alerts until you manually delete it.

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  • [–] 53 points 1 week ago (12 children)

    There's also the problem where someone sends a reoccurring meeting, then leaves the company. The meeting can't be removed. Ever.

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  • [–] 54 points 1 week ago (8 children)

    There's actually an option in Outlook to prevent that from happening which I definitely use. I want to be able to see the invitation in my inbox, so that I can see when it arrived, when which updates came, etc.

    The only problem: that option isn't available AFAIK in the "new" outlook. Goddammit Microsoft.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    Man, I hate it when a piece of software updates and is all nice-looking and whatnot... but doesn't at least have all the same features as the legacy one. Especially when it's a forced update. Microsoft loves to do this with Teams, Outlook, Word, etc.

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    [–] 47 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

    For anyone genuinely struggling with this: There's a setting in the Outlook options that will keep the invite in your inbox after you accept it.

    I don't have access to Outlook anymore so I can't tell you where it is, sorry. It's buried in that awful overwhelming interface somewhere, but hopefully knowing that it exists is a helpful starting point. Good luck.

    Edit: Apparently they've removed this option in the "new" Outlook, my condolences if you're using that one.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    Outlook also embeds the contents of the email into the calendar event. All of that information is preserved and can be accessed by double-clicking on the event in the calendar.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Clearly most of the people in this thread don't want to scroll forward in a calendar to find what was easily accessible a moment ago. It should exist in the calendar and in the inbox. It's an arbitrary quality of life issue, and they removed the ability for the users to decide for themselves if they can retain the message in their inbox.

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    [–] 43 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    It's worthwhile knowing that the calendar is just a view of a folder in an Exchange mailbox, and accepting just moves the item into the calendar folder.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 week ago

    As a former IT worker, i assure you that if its not on the chronological place of the inbox where it "always is", it doesnt exist. Its bad user experience. Copy or link the details to the calendar instead, keep the message unless deleted manually.

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    [–] 34 points 1 week ago (12 children)

    The amount of interns/students commenting "its fine/skill issue", shows the demographic of lemmy and how comfortable people are giving stupid opinions about problems they don't have, but are apparently experts on.

    To all of you: having the email both in inbox and calendar gives another sorting of the information, which is always a good thing. Some people might prefer removing the emails to "tidy up" inbox, but that shouldn't make it the only option (because those people, other than OCD, probably don't have more than 10 emails / day, with > 50 they would have give up on tidy)

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    [–] 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    I love how the office homepage is now a portal to whatever their LLM is called. Who needs all their recent files and direct links to the software they use in a single view. What kind of idiot would want that. What a great company.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 week ago (10 children)

    .... It goes into your calendar?

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    [–] 31 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    The amount of people in this thread that have never had more than a couple meetings is shocking. Or meetings a few months out that get hidden by mundane things.

    Having your chronologically ordered email tends to be easier to sort through than trying to remember the event name/date from a calendar invite.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

    As someone who has been in IT support for twenty years. The fact that people aren't slaughtering Microsoft executives for how terrible a product excel is... it's wild to me.

    Every accountant uses excel and every single one of them have called us in IT support to demand we restore 2-18 hours of work only to find out we can't restore it because Microsoft excel (and MS word) are two of the single most broken terrible pieces of shit software.

    I'm basically a person who has to tell people the hours of work they did is lost because Microsoft are incompetent

    I'm tired boss..

    Apple lovers, your crap is lost because Apple are so locked down... Well you think it's locked down, Apple products are actually easier to crack it just takes 5 minutes more.

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    [–] 26 points 1 week ago (6 children)

    The guy forgot to look at the calendar?

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    And that's how I ended up moving from software that "knew better than me" and chose for me.

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    [–] 19 points 1 week ago

    I like how the autogenerated meeting invite does not include any plaintext telling you the meeting date and time

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  • [–] 13 points 1 week ago

    Number one reason I never accept meeting invites (I just decline if I can’t go), totally insane it works that way.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 week ago

    microsoft is a cancer

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