all of the above did not fix my issue. I've added a ticket to the microsoft community. It could help us if you indicate you have the same problem there -->
Outlook asks to save when closing appointments without any change.
When I open any appointment in outlook calendar I have to save it before closing. Even If I did not change anything.
Any idea how to solve this?
Using M365 - Version 2105
Outlook | Windows | Classic Outlook for Windows | For business
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V S • 41 Reputation points
2021-12-02T22:17:48.967+00:00 I have the same issue. It's extremely annoying. Even if you have not made any change, it asks the question, and then it makes you doubt yourself. Has Microsoft not tested this thoroughly?
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Richard Cioci • 6 Reputation points
2022-02-03T13:23:40.08+00:00 Does it occur for you if the meeting has a link and you click the link? Like a teams or zoom invite? I think this might be the issue, which still to me would mean I haven't change the invite so I don't want to see the prompt every time.
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Sean C. Meeks • 51 Reputation points
2022-02-09T16:43:27.447+00:00 Same here. This is a constant Outlook headache, and it seems to be related to clicking links (Zoom or Teams) in a meeting appointment. After the click, it forces a save changes dialog box. Seems like this should be an easy fix, and it would save me 5-8 false events every day.
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IoTconsultancy.nl • 31 Reputation points
2022-02-15T07:50:02.473+00:00 Initially I also thought it was related to clicking meeting links (being counted as "a change") but I can't reproduce the issue in that way with my current/latest Outlook client. The "put laptop into sleep mode" steps I describe above can reproduce the issue.
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IoTconsultancy.nl • 31 Reputation points
2022-02-15T07:53:01.993+00:00 Are you able to reproduce this issue when clicking a link and then closing the appointment window? If yes it would be useful to know your Outlook client version perhaps. If not, then you might try my above steps of putting the laptop into sleep mode, waking up again, and then trying to close the window. In my case this reproduces the issue (on client version 2112 (Build 14729.20260 Click-to-Run))
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JK • 16 Reputation points
2022-10-07T17:16:14.907+00:00 This can be fixed by going to File -> Options -> Calendar and unchecking Show weather on Calendar. If the weather changes while the appt is open, it prompts to save changes before you can close it.
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Tobias Ziegler • 56 Reputation points
2022-10-17T08:59:36.787+00:00 Sounds like a quick resolution. Will test it - thank you!
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Chuck Molnar • 11 Reputation points
2022-10-24T14:30:00.937+00:00 This didn't work for me. Weather wasn't even enabled.
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Tobias Ziegler • 56 Reputation points
2022-10-24T14:50:00.047+00:00 Did not work for me. Had weather enabled and disabled it. Still have to save all unchanged appointments.
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IoTconsultancy.nl • 31 Reputation points
2022-10-31T10:16:19.513+00:00 Also didn't work for me, unfortunately.
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Brit Anderson • 6 Reputation points
2022-11-04T16:14:45.437+00:00 Same issue. No changes, no weather enabled, not moving from different screen scales, not going into hibernate. It still happens EVERY time I close an outlook meeting window. No exceptions. Every single time. I had to just disable the exclamation sound on my computer. I'm hosting zoom calls and this annoying sound continuously interrupts. Very annoying and clearly a bug since nothing actually does change to the meeting invite other than clicking the link to start the meeting.
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Huckestein, Chase • 0 Reputation points
2023-03-16T20:13:44.73+00:00 Would be great to have this fixed - if the only thing that changed was I clicked a link in the meeting (to join) don't prompt to save before closing
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HNold • 0 Reputation points
2023-03-17T06:44:14.7466667+00:00 unbelievable, but did work for me! thank you very much for this help
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Nathan Tennant • 5 Reputation points
2023-03-22T13:54:41.5666667+00:00 This is my problem as well. Clicking Zoom links in the body (subject and location line zoom links not clickable).
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Nathan Tennant • 5 Reputation points
2023-03-22T14:14:42.6033333+00:00 Yes, I can (not OP). Clicking a zoom link with Zoom plugin and Outlook version of:
Microsoft® Outlook® for Microsoft 365 MSO (Version 2302 Build 16.0.16130.20298) 64-bit, Zoom Outlook Plugin 5.14.0.849 -
Paul J • 25 Reputation points
2023-04-05T17:55:04.74+00:00 This is definitely the issue. Zoom/Teams and Outlook are two of the most commonly paired software platforms in all of business - How this is not yet worked out in 2023 is beyond me. Think of all the lost productivity as people hunt for the "Save" dialog among their pile of windows to tidy their desktop. It negates the usefulness of Window's Task View, since you can't directly close a stack of Zoom invite Outlook email windows from there. You have to toggle into and out of the interface to close (and choose Not to Save) the windows one. by. one. Ouch! Plus, an unfortunate side-effect is a "boy-who-cried-wolf" effect, where you are now rapidly mass-clicking "No" on the save dialog, and accidentally lose a legitimate draft that you should have saved.
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Dan Winslow • 10 Reputation points
2023-04-12T14:11:05.35+00:00 This has been occurring for at least a decade. What it is 'caused by' is if anything changes in the open appointment, it gets marked as 'updated', and the standard close functionality will ask you if you want to keep the changes. The weather, your current online status, whether you are logged in or not, and maybe even what time it currently is, anything at all - if it gets changed then the whole email is marked as updated, even if whatever it was gets subsequently changed back to its original value.
What's missing is a mechanic of whether something is important or not...and probably a huge, complicated selection panel to turn on and off things you consider important or not. Plus, the ability to have things insert themselves like add-ons (zoom, etc.) and who knows what new raft of updatable items they bring along. In short, it's a very difficult problem and the huge amount of contextual data tied up in a appointment makes it even worse. Who could tell whether some random change from the weather or an add-on is important or not? Do you want it to ask you every time for every bit of changed data? That would be worse. The alternative of ignoring some changes (that happen without your intervention) versus your directly typed in changes allows for the possibility that important changes could be lost, and that would be worse.
So- It's never going to be fixed, it is annoying as heck, and that's the end of the story. My advice - close your appointments immediately after you are done with them. -
Todd O'Keefe • 15 Reputation points
2023-06-09T18:33:39.1033333+00:00 I'm going to pile on here because this is a daily annoyance for me. I have 3 monitors and a ton of stuff open throughout the day. Just trying to clean up the mess is a gigantic headache. Hover over the outlook icon pinned to the taskbar, try and X out of the 20 open e-mails and meeting detail windows and get thwarted by the windows alert noise. The save changes dialogue box is hidden under 10 other open files that I have to minimize across 3 monitors in a soul crushing scavenger hunt. My question - under what circumstances would following a link in a meeting invite ever make me want to save changes? I can tell you that I certainly don't have a need, if you want to keep that functionality for some crazy edge-case, then make it a setting in the options menu. Then, you can have a thread about that with an actual solution.
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IoTconsultancy.nl • 31 Reputation points
2023-06-12T10:01:40.5933333+00:00 @Nathan Tennant The Zoom plugin could actually modify the event's data in some way if you click a link - this may be likely an issue that the plugin developer (not Microsoft -> Zoom) would have to solve. To test that, you could disable or remove the plugin and test with Zoom appointments and clicking the link. In my case (without Zoom plugin), clicking such links doesn't trigger the issue.
Context: for some people this issue can be reproduced by opening any appointment, locking the PC, then unlocking, and trying to close the appointment window.@ Todd O'Keefe Maybe useful to specify if you used the Zoom plugin, or the Zoom add-in, if the problem is also there with disabled Zoom plugin, and if the problem also occurs with links in non-Zoom appointments? And maybe if the problem is also triggered by just locking your PC without clicking any links, would be curious about that :-)
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Steven Wu • 10 Reputation points
2024-01-10T15:47:55.06+00:00 I concur. This issue exists at least for 10 years. It's kind of related to laptop recovery from sleep mode. I think outlook need different way detecting changes. It happens to me almost daily when I start to work
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Paul J • 25 Reputation points
2024-01-10T15:53:45.4533333+00:00 The greater theme in all these forums where folks struggle with this issue is that Microsoft / Outlook team needs to take control of the situation. No matter what settings are set, there should be no plugin, no sleep mode, nothing at all that should impact a user’s ability to close an unchanged (ie visible fields) appointment item with a SINGLE CLICK on the X.
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Josh Horton • 31 Reputation points
2024-01-10T16:13:40.6533333+00:00 God, all of what Paul says 100%.
My suspicion is there are a number of issues involved with how Outlook tracks changes in calendar entries.
However, #1 is probably the "link state" updates when you click on a Zoom/Webex/Teams meeting. From an engineer's perspective, sure, something changed. But from a human understanding, I didn't update any material details in the meeting so Outlook should let me close it without a pop-up.
Given 95% of the calendar entries I actually open are meeting invites, it seems like it would be a pretty easy fix to just IGNORE the link turning from blue to purple (or whatever Outlook is tracking behind the scenes).
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MS_SUCKS • 0 Reputation points
2024-04-10T04:03:10.9+00:00 This bullshit issue sucks so much, i can't tell. Guess developers never used outlook on their own, so they never ran into this issue, maybe only sitting at home with no meetings at all, explains the low software quality.
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Simon Lelli • 0 Reputation points
2025-05-02T10:54:55.0066667+00:00 VERY ANNOYING... and as someone said... "boy who cried wolf" ... you get used to NOT saving items that may have actually changed. In my mind this is such a MS outlook bug/oversight I am surprised more people don't complain. It's probably because they don't care anymore and just click NO
A question and a suggestion for anyone (Microsoft?)
- QUESTION = do actioning ribbon items classify as a change that needs to be saved ? (eg opening a TEAMS mtg or "Send to Onenote" create a link or change that NEED to be saved ?) I often create a OneNote page from most meetings and capture info/screenshots etc.... And I know the OneNote has a link back to the mtg ... but does the mtg need to be updated to capture the reverse link and know there already exists a OneNote page. Confused me SO MUCH!!
- SUGGESTION = MS capture the reason why the item needs to be saved somehow and add it to the message (highest one only needed). eg details changed ; content changed ; time changed ; Onenote link added ; display changed (actually this shouldn't need a change) ;
- Good luck
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Willem • 11 Reputation points
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IoTconsultancy.nl • 31 Reputation points
2023-01-02T14:17:39.6+00:00 I added my comment on that forum. Locking Windows and then unlocking by logging in again is probably the easiest way to reproduce this issue.
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