{"id":1486,"date":"2023-08-02T12:45:49","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T16:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tbplante\/?p=1486"},"modified":"2023-08-02T15:01:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T19:01:43","slug":"emailing-outlook-calendar-availability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tbplante\/2023\/08\/02\/emailing-outlook-calendar-availability\/","title":{"rendered":"Emailing Outlook calendar availability"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Scheduling meetings with someone inside of your institution is pretty easy in Outlook since you can typically look at shared availability with the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/support.dar.uga.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Using-the-Scheduling-Assistant-with-Microsoft-Outlook-Calendar.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Scheduling Assistant<\/a> when generating a calendar invitation. Things get a bit more complex for folks outside of your institutions, which is why there are services like Doodle, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/whenisgood.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">WhenIsGood.net<\/a>, and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.when2meet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">When2Meet.com<\/a>. When you are trying to meet with 1 or 2 people outside of your institution, you can instead directly send your calendar availability in-line in an email. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Pop out your email message draft<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click to set your cursor where you want your calendar to appear<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click insert &#8211;&gt; calendar (you probably need to make your window full screen in order to see this calendar option)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Next:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tbplante\/files\/2023\/08\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1487\" width=\"518\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tbplante\/files\/2023\/08\/image.png 865w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tbplante\/files\/2023\/08\/image-300x228.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tbplante\/files\/2023\/08\/image-768x582.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>4. Change the date range to &#8220;specify dates&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tbplante\/files\/2023\/08\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1488\" width=\"403\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tbplante\/files\/2023\/08\/image-1.png 625w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tbplante\/files\/2023\/08\/image-1-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 403px) 100vw, 403px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>5. The start date will be today. Change the end date to some other date. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tbplante\/files\/2023\/08\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1489\" width=\"405\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tbplante\/files\/2023\/08\/image-2.png 592w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tbplante\/files\/2023\/08\/image-2-300x270.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">6. Click &#8220;okay&#8221; and then you&#8217;ll have your calendar in-line! It also tacks on an ics file. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tbplante\/files\/2023\/08\/image-3-746x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1490\" width=\"514\" height=\"706\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tbplante\/files\/2023\/08\/image-3-746x1024.png 746w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tbplante\/files\/2023\/08\/image-3-219x300.png 219w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tbplante\/files\/2023\/08\/image-3-768x1054.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tbplante\/files\/2023\/08\/image-3.png 777w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scheduling meetings with someone inside of your institution is pretty easy in Outlook since you can typically look at shared availability with the Scheduling Assistant when generating a calendar invitation. Things get a bit more complex for folks outside of your institutions, which is why there are services like Doodle, WhenIsGood.net, and When2Meet.com. When you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tbplante\/2023\/08\/02\/emailing-outlook-calendar-availability\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Emailing Outlook calendar availability<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4473,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[502555],"tags":[703464,703463,703461,703462],"class_list":["post-1486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-productivity-and-organization","tag-calendar-availability","tag-emailing-calendar","tag-outlook","tag-outlook-calendar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tbplante\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tbplante\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tbplante\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tbplante\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4473"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tbplante\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tbplante\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1494,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tbplante\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions\/1494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tbplante\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tbplante\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tbplante\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}