SP2007 Edit approval workflow e-mail

Hello,
One of the sites I a managing in Share Point 2007 has an approval workflow (based on the standard approval workflow) to approve calender items. The e-mail that is send to the approver contains a link to the
calender item, however I would like it to contain a link to the task item, so that the approver does not have to search for the task to approve.
I am new to SharePoint 2007, having only worked with 2010 or 2013. Can anyone tell if and where I can change the body of approval workflow e-mails
in SharePoint 2007.
Thank You!

The first thing to check is whether you can open the site and workflow within Designer. As you're working with a version of SharePoint that's a bit devolved from what you're used to, knowing some differences might be handy: -
All workflow instances are list level only
There are no re-usable workflow templates
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