Has this ever happened to you? Your boss has set up a recurring meeting, such as a weekly staff meeting, and one day she calls in sick and asks you to cancel the meeting. Because you are not the meeting organizer, the Cancel Meeting command won't appear on your Actions menu in Outlook.

What's the easiest way for you to notify all the other attendees that there won't be a meeting? Here's how you can cancel a meeting when you are an attendee and not the organizer.

1. In Calendar, open the meeting by selecting Open this occurrence.
2. On the Actions menu, click Reply to All with Message.
3. In the message box, type the information about the meeting cancellation.
   You may want to suggest in your message that people remove the meeting from their calendars by clicking Delete on the File menu.
4. Click Send.
5. To remove the meeting from your calendar, click Delete on the File menu.
   

That's it. You've notified all the meeting attendees that the meeting is canceled, and you've removed the meeting from your calendar.