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Note: This tip was originally written for Outlook 2007 when an add-in blocked the ability to Save and not send updates. The same basic solution will work in newer versions too: use the Save button or Ctrl+S when the 'Save but don't send updates' option is missing after editing the message body. If you edit the date & time or location you will need to send updates. Microsoft no longer allows you to change the time or location without sending an update.
Update: This bug was related to an add-in and Outlook 2007 SP2 included the update for this problem. Verify you have the latest updates installed then try Safe mode. If it works as expected in Safe mode, it's an add-in causing problems. You can either identify the add-in and disable it or set Outlook offline, choose Save and Send updates, then delete the update from the Outbox before going back online. (Hold Ctrl as you click on the Outlook icon to start in Safe mode.)
I’m seeing a lot of questions that go like this:
After a meeting request was created and sent to all our attendees, I want to add note to that meeting on my calendar but I don't want other attendees to get the note I am saving. In Outlook 2003, it was a breeze. It lets me save the note without forcing me to send update. How do I do it in Outlook 2007?
If clicking the X to close the form doesn't offer the Save, no updates option, use the following method:
Use the following steps to close and save an updated meeting request without sending the update:
- Hit Save.
- Choose the ‘Don't save but keep open’ option.
- Click X to close.
- Choose the Don't Save option.
Open the meeting – it should have your notes saved but no update gets sent. Yes, it is a roundabout way to do what should be a simple task, but it works. And yes, there is clearly a bug in the process since it saves the changes anyway.
Published August 27, 2008. Last updated on April 9, 2013.
Diane, I agree that is the functionality, and that is a significant step backwards. I do not want Microsoft to "out-think me" - for example, what if I set a call, and then delegate it to someone else. I don't want it on my calendar, however there it is. My own particular usage of Outlook is a bit unusual, in that I always take meeting notes into the meeting notice, and then when I have completed all my personal actions, I convert the meeting notice to a task (drag onto the Task icon on the lower right), and then Complete… Read more »
Given all the discussion here, it is obvious that this is a major problem. What is the proper forum to provide useful feedback that someone will actually HEAR?
My use of Outlook - since 1999 - has always included an ability to change ALL meeting info without disrupting other users - adding drive time to meetings just for me, time to get through security at airports, etc. Now I have to either go offline and update, then delete the dang update, and / or just live with the limitations and counter meetings. All of it a total kludge.
You shouldn't get the warning when you edit the message body, only if you edit the location, time or date. plus, if you add an invitee.
Thank you Diane for the workaround of going offline, saving the meeting, deleting the message from my outbox, and going back online. It worked.
This is an issue that is causing a serious problem for the many of us that book on other people's schedules as well as our own. Why can't an update be done that corrects this exasperating problem?
When I need to update a meeting in Outlook 2010 I just delete all the recepients and send the update to myself.
I hope that works for you.