Cancel a meeting in Outlook
Before we move ahead and understand how to cancel a meeting in Outlook, let’s first understand how Outlook works. The Outlook Calendar is an interesting and extremely useful application. Using the Outlook Calendar, one can easily send meeting requests. At the same time, the invitation request can also be canceled with ease. It is also very easy to schedule multiple occurrences meeting with Outlook. The organizer holds full rights to sending the meeting requests to various people as well as to cancel the meeting. The meeting can be a one-time meeting, a recurring meeting, or one or more instances of the recurring meeting. Here are the simple steps that need to be followed for any type of meeting cancellation. Read: How to assign Sound Alerts for New Incoming Email in Outlook.
Steps to cancel a one-time meeting
Note: ‘Cancel Meeting’ option on the Action menu is only present for the organizer. For those who are not available to see the option cannot cancel and delete the meeting.
Steps to cancel a recurring meeting
Note: If you are not able to view Recurrence on the Standard Toolbar, then you won’t be able to cancel the meeting as you are not the meeting organizer.
Steps to cancel an instance of the recurring meeting
Note: If you are not able to see Cancel Meeting in Outlook in Actions menu then you are not an organizer and you don’t have a right to cancel the meeting. Remember one thing, whenever you cancel or delete any meeting as the organizer, it is always advisable to notify every person that was given an invitation previously. There is no hard and fast rule to inform every person involved but still, it comes under good etiquette. Read: How to sync Outlook Calendar with Google Calendar.
