How to send an Invitation for Meeting in Outlook

Microsoft Office component Outlook is not only limited to receiving email, but it has many other features in it. The versatile approach of this program allows you to create invitations for meetings and appointments. The reason behind the availability of such features is the calendar integration inside this component. One more advantage of this functionality is that it works even better if your Exchange employees are using it too. In such a case, you don’t need to invite each of your colleagues separately; you just have to schedule a meeting, and it will automatically appear in your colleague’s system.

In this article, we’ll show you how to create an appointment and meeting invitation that appears automatically to your exchange employees. Creating these events is simple, and they’re easy to share with others.

Send Invitation For Meeting In Outlook

To send an Invitation for Meeting in Outlook, follow these steps:

1. Open Outlook
2. Click on the Calendar icon
3. Next, click on the New Meeting or New Appointment option
4. Use Address Book to attach the invites
5. Manually add the email address of those people
6. Add complete details regarding the event in the space so provided.

Let us look at this in detail.

1. Open Outlook, click on the Calender icon (2nd in the left bottom corner). Then click on the New Meeting or New Appointment whatever you like to create.

2. Suppose we created a new meeting event. Here, you can use the Address Book to attach the invites from your exchange so that they receive the new notification automatically in their Outlook profile.

If you are sending an invitation to people outside of your exchange, you can manually add their email addresses. In the space provided, you can add complete details regarding the event.

3. The people who are invited will get a reminder on their Outlook component in the following manner:

Incomplete Invitation Details Sent by Outlook

If you’re facing the issue of complete event details not send to recipient especially those people who are outside your exchange, you can try the following fix:

1. Press Windows Key + R combination, type put Regedt32.exe in Run dialog box and hit Enter to open the Registry Editor.

2. Navigate here:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Outlook\Options\Calendar

3. In the right pane of this registry location, add the new DWORD named EnableMeetingDownLevelText using right click -> New -> DWORD Value. Double click on the same DWORD to get this:

4. In the above-shown box, put the Value data equals to 1 and click OK. You may now close the Registry Editor now and reboot the machine to fix the issue.

That’s it!

Read: How to export Outlook Calendar in CSV file on Windows.