Then mark the item as tentative rather than decline.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, JWSSoft asked:

| I also agree! My issue is that the meeting invites that I sometimes
| have to decline due to being double or triple booked contain agenda's
| and minutes that I need to refer to long term. When I try to recover
| them from my Deleted Items folder it converts them into a regular
| email format with no recipient and saves as a draft email from me!!!
| This makes it really hard to search on it later when I need to refer
| to it!!
|
| "TRAFFICBLOWS" wrote:
|
|| I agree wholeheartedly!! I want to see a "Show Meeting as Free in
|| Calendar" option when Declining an appointment so the meeting can be
|| revisited at a later date.
||
|| Often when there are conflicting meetings, one gets cancelled or you
|| change your mind, but the Calendar only shows the accepted meeting.
|| Definitely want to keep track of declined appointments, at least to
|| see when they occured or to keep up with updates.
||
|| "LostButFound" wrote:
||
||| Thanks, Milly - it's unfortunate that Outlook doesn't keep a record
||| of declined meeting invitations. It's not unusual that situations
||| change so that I find I can attend a meeting after I've declined it.
|||
||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|||
|||| Ask the meeting organizer to resend it.
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|||| After furious head-scratching, LostButFound asked this group:
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||||| how can I accept a meeting invitation I previously declined?