Outlook should allow me to reserve daily non-meeting time.

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Stuart Marshall - 20 May 2005 09:51 GMT

As a manager I get invited to a lot of meetings. It's easy for entire days to
be consumed by meetings. However, I need an hour or two at my desk every day
to get my other work done. I'd like to be able to tell Outlook to reserve an
hour or two a day for desk time (no meetings). When I accept a meeting that
brings me to my minimum daily desk time (e.g. only 2 hours not yet booked)
Outlook should ask me if I want to block out the rest of the day as busy. I
could accept yes, which would block out the time and discourage further
meeting requests.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] - 20 May 2005 20:05 GMT

Create an appointment and mark it private - use the amount of time that you
will need, say, for lunch or work on a project.

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| As a manager I get invited to a lot of meetings. It's easy for entire
| days to be consumed by meetings. However, I need an hour or two at my
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| button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft
| Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane.

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ProfDD - 21 May 2005 01:32 GMT

I think he is not saying that he wants to reserve a particular time
block, but that he wants at least one two-hour time block reserved for
his desk work, which could be at any time. And, if that isn't what he
wants, then it should be !

Personally, I would like to have a system something like the airlines'
systems for only gradually releasing seats at discount prices. And,
because I haven't gotten anyone to pay any price for my meeting time, I
don't need the pricing module ! My ideal would be that only one
meeting (not to exceed 1.5 hours) could be scheduled on any workday
without my explicitly freeing up additional time. I would, of course,
like to know how many efforts to book my time were made, so i would not
allow automatic acceptance.

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Stuart Marshall - 25 May 2005 08:27 GMT

You're right in understanding my suggestion. I want two hours at my desk (by
myself), but I don't really care which two hours they are.

My current practice is to notice that my day only has an hour or two left
open and then manually schedule private time. I wish Outlook would do this
for me.

Stuart

> I think he is not saying that he wants to reserve a particular time
> block, but that he wants at least one two-hour time block reserved for
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> like to know how many efforts to book my time were made, so i would not
> allow automatic acceptance.

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