Would this scenario work for you in Outlook 2007: Have the PAs create the meetings on their own calendars, rather than on the CEO's calendar. They would certainly still invite the CEO, but would maintain the meeting details on their own calendars, presumably using color coding or a separate view to distinguish those meetings from the PA's own activities.

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"Katie G" wrote:

Can anyone think of a situation you wouldn't want to send a cancelation ?

Yes!

I work for the CEO of our organisation and there are frequent recurring
management meetings - where I obviously send invitations to other attendees.
Even if the CEO cannot go, these meetings still go ahead with the other
attendees. So I might need to delete them from the CEO's calendar (if he has
other commitments in the calendar then it's just a mess if I leave the
meeting in there) - but the other people still NEED them in their calendars -
it's much easier and quicker to say "No, don't send a cancellation" than to
rebook the meeting and ensure people send responses.

I am disappointed that this option has gone from Outlook 2007. We have not
yet upgraded (we're still on 2003). In my opinion, it would be useful to give
us the choice (possibly as a global option on the server) whether to
force/automatically send cancellations or leave it as it works now (preferred
option for hardworking PAs everywhere).