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I attend daily standups with one of our development teams. On Thursdays, I have a conflict but can attend all other days. Is there a way to decline all Thursdays going forward, while accepting any other day?

Currently, I decline each Thursday individually, which isn't ideal.

Did a pretty extensive search and found plenty of answers around declining all meetings after specific dates, but nothing on this specific use case. But I'm sure I'm not the only one with this scenario!

I use outlook on both PC and Mac, if that affects the answer.

alaskanloops
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There is no built-in feature available in Outlook to do a "recurring decline". As an alternative, you may accept the meeting first, then open your calendar and delete multiple occurrences on Thursday in a row:

  1. Press Ctrl key to select multiple occurrences you want to decline: (See the occurrences below with dark black borders.)

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  1. Click Delete this occurrence.

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  1. When prompted if you want to send a response to the organizer, I'd like to suggest editing a response to notify the organizer that you will be absent for all meetings on Thursday, then sending the response once.

  2. Repeat Step 3, but choose Do not send a response for the second prompt to avoid sending too many notifications to the organizer.

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