How to decline recurring Outlook meetings beyond a certain date?

I can attend some of the meetings I have been sent, but beyond a point in time, this will not be possible. Therefore I would like to remove all the meetings beyond this date.

Seemingly the only options are

decline all
decline one

The only solution I can think of is to wait until the last meeting has occurred, then remove the series, but why should I have to do that?

EDIT: some people seem to have not noticed that I am asking from the point of view as an invitee and NOT a meeting organiser

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adolf garlic

Posted 2014-03-18T08:19:13.320

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Answers

You should be able to change the "End By" date within the recurrence settings of the series.

Open the entire series of the meeting(s) in question.
Open the Recurrence dialogue box. (see screenshot below)
Select and change the End By date.

I'm using Outlook 2013, but you can Google "Recurrence tab + Outlook version" to work out where it's located if your Outlook differs.

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Samuel Nicholson

Posted 2014-03-18T08:19:13.320

Reputation: 1 282

I just tested this and it worked. Once I made the change, I clicked "Save & Close" in the top left. If OP is still around, this answer should be ticked. – Engineer Toast – 2015-08-25T19:54:07.997

@EngineerToast been quite a while lol ;d – Samuel Nicholson – 2015-08-25T21:24:42.953

16That is something the organizer of the meetings can do – I believe the OP was asking for a way to decline a meeting series from a particular date onwards. – Martin Geisler – 2016-01-29T09:05:26.193

1@MartinGeisler, it still works to hide the meeting from the calendar though. The only drawback is that the organizer will not receive a decline notification. – Didier L – 2017-11-27T12:53:05.723

Meeting has a recurrence set, and I am viewing the series, but I cannot edit the recurrence as the attendee. – Pysis – 2019-11-12T19:36:31.660

It worked on my mac book pro by going to outlook 2011 version 14.5.7, go to calendar. Open calendar-> see Home-> appointments series-> organize-> tools. Click on appointments series. Go onto the specific meeting/appointment/class, etc. You want to start by higlighting it then open your appointment screen and you have subject, location, starts, ends, and below that you have : recurrence :

For example: I have in my case a specific class every two weeks starting jan 09 /2014 and at the end of this line you have two little arrows (looking like they turn like a wheel). Click on it. You will have a pop up screen, then you choose from there the starting and ending times. (I had put unlimited) so I finally put an :"end time"

Hope it is clear and helpful ..(this is for outlook for mac)

jean-pierre

Posted 2014-03-18T08:19:13.320

Reputation: 1

5This would be editing the actual event series for all the people invited, which is not the same as declining a meeting invite. – ohnit – 2016-04-01T17:47:05.247

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It's actually much simpler than that. Simply go to your calendar and find the meeting placeholder at each recurring date. You can then accept each instance separately.

Martin Stolzenberg

Posted 2014-03-18T08:19:13.320

Reputation: 1

Welcome to Super User! On this Q&A site we try to provide good answers to questions people ask. Part of providing a good answer is making sure you fully read the question and understand what's being asked. In this case, the asker mentions that they are aware of the decline one option, which is what you're describing. Please update your answer to actually help resolve the question, or remove it.

– cascer1 – 2016-11-07T13:10:34.433

3The meeting is defined multiple times per week for the next year. You seriously think I'm going to go and individually decline each one of those? – adolf garlic – 2016-11-09T13:35:01.240