How do I show a calendar appointment as "Out of Office" for organizer (me) but "Free" for invitees?

Question

In the old Outlook, you could send a calendar appointment to invitees (example: "I will be out of office") and in that appointment, leave the "Show As" to "Free". Then, you could go back in and update "Show As" to "Out of Office", hit "close" and you would get a prompt to send to attendees, which you could decline. This would enable the sender to show the appointment as "Out of Office" but keep it from showing as "Out of Office" for all attendees. Now, when I attempt to do this, I hit the X to close the appointment after changing to OOO, and am prompted with "Are you sure you want to discard changes?" How do I do this in new Outlook?

Answer 1

Hi HK1222,

Just wanted to check, if you ran into any issues submitting feedback through the Microsoft Feedback Portal, please let me know. I will try my best to help you

Thank you for your time.

Best Regards,
Mia - MSFT | Microsoft Community Support Specialist.

Answer 2

Hi HK1222,

Welcome to the Microsoft Community.

Based on your description, I’m sorry to share that this specific behavior is not supported in the new Outlook.

Since this feature is important to your workflow, we kindly ask that you submit your feedback through the Outlook Feedback Portal Ideas · Community This is the best channel to influence future feature developments, as our product team regularly reviews submissions from users like yourself.

Please understand and accept my apologies because, as moderators of the community, we are not responsible for Microsoft's product development and design, and we have limited resources for product development. To help you send your feedback and requirements to the relevant product development team, we've redirected you to the right path.

Feel free to let me know if you have any further questions or concern.

Best Regards,
Mia - MSFT | Microsoft Community Support Specialist.