Office 365 (Web) - Create, Modify, or Delete a Calendar Event

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Create a Calendar Event

Modify a Calendar Event

Delete a Calendar Event

Create a Calendar Event

An appointment is an event for yourself like a medical appointment or other reason you may be out of office. A meeting is an event invite that you send to other people.

1. At the bottom of the page, select .

2. Click on the calendar at the day and time when you'd like the event to occur. Or, select New event at the top of the page.

3. Add a title to your event. If it's an all-day event, select the All day toggle.

4. If you want to invite people to the event, type their names or email addresses in the Invite required attendees box. You can see times they're available below the drop-down menus for date and time.

   

5. Type a location for your event in the Search for a room or location box. Outlook will offer suggested locations based on what you've typed.

6. You can set additional optional items on the full event form. Select  or More details and then select the following options:

   • Select Busy to choose how your status will appear during the event, or to make the event private.

   • Select Categorize to choose a category for the event.

   • Select Response options to choose if you want to request responses from attendees, allow the meeting request to be forwarded, or hide the attendee list.

   • Select Optional to add optional attendees.

   • Select Repeat to make this a recurring event, and then choose the dates when you want the series to begin and end.

   • Select Remind me to choose when you want to be reminded about the event. By default, the reminder time is set to 15 minutes before the event.

7. Select Save if this is an appointment you created for yourself or Send if this is a meeting with attendees.

Modify a Calendar Event

1. At the bottom of the page, select .

2. Select the event you want to modify and then select Edit.

   If this is a recurring meeting or appointment, you will also have to choose one of the following:

   • This event: Choose this option to open and make changes to the event you've selected in the calendar.

   • This and all following events: Choose this option to delete the event you've selected in the calendar and all subsequent events in the series.

   • All events in the series: Choose this option to open and make changes to the complete series of events.

3. Change any details for the event, and then select Save if this is an appointment you created for yourself or Send if this is a meeting with attendees.

Delete a Calendar Event

1. At the bottom of the page, select .

2. Select the event in your calendar.

3. Select Cancel if the event is a meeting, or Delete if the event is an appointment. If you're canceling a meeting, add a message if you want, and select Send.

   If this is a recurring event, you will have to select one of these options when you first select Cancel or Delete:

   • This event: Choose this option to cancel or delete the event you've selected in the calendar.

   • This and all following events: Choose this option to cancel or delete the event you've selected in the calendar and all subsequent events in the series.

   • All events in the series: Choose this option to cancel or delete the complete series of events.

For the most current information on creating, modifying, and/or deleting calendar events in Outlook on the Web, please reference the following Microsoft help article: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/create-modify-or-delete-a-meeting-request-or-appointment-in-outlook-on-the-web-6283f744-4ce1-470e-9d6b-96fa94e52996.