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On an average day, I receive between five and twenty meeting requests. I decline most of the sched+'s* that I receive with such haste that occasionally, I find myself digging through my Deleted Items folder looking for a just-deleted invite that caught my eye while I was deleting it.  Yesterday, I so deleted the following invitation:

Updated: End-To-End Usability Debrief and Beer

Doh!  In the blink of a bloodshot eye, as my email executioner's finger catapulted toward the Delete button, I saw those magical two words “...and Beer”.  After much flailing about in my Deleted Items folder, I accepted the gracious invitation to listen to “blah blah blah”  and “...drink Beer“.

Moral of Story:  Just add “...and Beer”.

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*Microsofties commonly say, “please schedule plus me” or write “please sch+ me” or “pls s+ me” when we wish to be invited to a meeting or event. I’ve never used it but apparently, Schedule+ was Microsoft's scheduling application prior to the release of Outlook.

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  • Anonymous
    April 30, 2004
    A school computer lab I administered in the NT4 days used Exchange 4.0 and Microsoft Schedule+ (with version number somewhere in 7.x) to handle appointments and email. It may not have originated in house, but it was a Microsoft branded product, at least from an end-user perspective.
  • Anonymous
    April 30, 2004
    Learn something every day.
  • Anonymous
    April 30, 2004
    and Beer.

    Great post! ...and I'm a pretty discriminating (uh, lazy) reader, so I don't attend most blog subject lines to which I'm invited. But you added beer.


  • Anonymous
    May 02, 2004
    Wow, 5-20 a day? That's a heck of a lot of meeting requests.
  • Anonymous
    May 03, 2004
    Schedule+ still exists in Office (at least in Office 2000, haven't seen Office XP).

    In Office 2000 the program is at:
    Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice1033SCHDPL32.EXE

    It runs just fine, unfortunately the help file seems to be missing. Why it's still included is beyond me.
  • Anonymous
    May 05, 2004
    Yep, still exists in Office 2003 as well, same location. Version 7.5, copyright 92-97. Weird!