Irene wrote:

Finding cutting & pasting DECLINED meetings annoying.

Then don't decline them. Declining means you don't want them to be part of
your schedule (i.e., NOT on your calendar). Instead, either accept them as
tentative and change the free/busy to indictate you're free or save them
(i.e, FileCopy to Folder) to a calendar folder OTHER than your default
folder and then decline them.
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Brian Tillman