11. Click Manage poll settings and select whether you want to have the meeting options held in your calendar, and if you want Outlook to schedule the meeting when a consensus is made for the meeting ...

Setting up a poll in Outlook is easy. Begin by creating a new E-mail message. When the Untitled Message window opens, select the Options tab and then click on the Use Voting Buttons button.

The specific steps vary based on your calendar app, so I’ll show you how to check people’s availability in the various Outlook apps (including the web app) as well as in the Apple Calendar ...