Poll of the Day > Microsoft Outlook - how come one invite lets me 'respond' and one doesn't?

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This is from an invitation that I want to put tentative and write back that I might have a conflict. If you click "edit the response before sending," it lets you put tentative as well as an actual body of text to write out anything you want. Unfortunately, as you can see, the image in the top invite does not have the dropdown. So if I click tentative, it just fires off a blank tentative email back to the organizer without letting me actually write any notes. So if I wanted to add context, I'd have to write a completely separate email.

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This is from a different calendar invite that I will be attending. As you can see, it DOES have the dropdown that I described above.

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So the question is... why can't I "edit the response before sending" on the invite that I actually need to respond to?

EDIT: And the "respond" doesn't let me include the accepted/decline/tentative, it just replies to the email

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Thank you for reaching out to Microsoft Outlook customer support. You have been assigned ticket #47264382

Because Microsoft is trash.

Googling suggested:

Sometimes, view settings can affect response options. Go to your calendar, click on the "View" tab, and select "Reset View" to ensure you're using the default settings.

I believe you can configure how people can respond to meeting invites you send. Maybe the two meetings were sent by people with different configurations.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/troubleshoot/calendaring/cannot-send-response-to-meeting-request

Cause
This issue occurs if the meeting organizer added you as a resource to the meeting and you are external to the meeting organizers domain.

Resolution
To work around this behavior, ask the meeting organizer to add you as a required or optional attendee instead of as a resource.

But the inviter of the meeting I can't respond to is internal :(

The Outlook desktop application is fucking dogshit. I lose my mind using it almost every day at work.