
However, the time is also marked as free on your own calendar. If you followed the steps in the previous section, the meeting request you sent was marked as free time to prevent blocking out time on other people's calendars. Step 2: Block out vacation time on your calendar It is still marked as free time, however. Note: If you did not select All day event, the event shows within the time grid it does not appear at the top of the day. When you send this meeting request with Show As set to Free, the event appears at the top of each day in your coworkers' Outlook calendars - a visual reminder that does not block out any work time.
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If you are alerting people to a series of recurring times that you will be away from the office, in the Options group, click Recurrence, select the recurrence pattern, and then click OK. Type any information that you want to share with the recipients.Īdd the intended recipients to the To line. To avoid your coworkers receiving alerts at odd times, set the Reminder setting to None. When choosing an all-day event, the start time of the event is at midnight. The recipient's calendar will still show free availability for scheduling during your vacation time. This allows the meeting request recipients to accept the meeting request and add your vacation time to their calendar, but not block out any time on their calendar.

Make sure the Show As setting is set to Free.
