I was giving a demo of the 2007 release to some colleagues on Monday and I was asked about the "forward" feature in the calendar. One of the attendees, an exec PA who spends her life sorting out meeting requests, said she couldn't always find this feature and wondered why it was only available some of the time.

I promised to look into it and so I sat down this morning to track down the errant "forward" button.

The answer was easier than I thought. It turns out that "Forward" is there all the time, but it changes appearance.

This is what it looks like in it's full size:

But it only appears like this if you have enough space on the toolbar - in my case, when I start a new appointment. I keep my Outlook windows at about 25cm (on my laptop) and when I open an appointment with more buttons on the toolbar (for example, a meeting that I've invited other people to attend, which has all the scheduling options visible), there isn't enough room for the whole Forward button and so it looks like this:

Now if you were to show me the second version and ask me what it did, I'd say "Forward". But having seen the first version (and filed it away in my head as the "Forward" button), when I see the second version, my eyes somehow pass over it and I don't register that it is in fact what I am looking for.

Turns out the bug isn't with Office, but with the way my mind works…!