Cancelling recurring appointments in the future only

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How can I cancel future recurring appointments without cancelling all those
appearing in the past?
 
If you haven't made any changes to past appointments, you can simply change
the end date of the recurrence to today or the last appointment date. If
you have made changes, however, you can't change the end date of the series
without deleting the past appointments with changes.

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I don't know if you have any pull with the outlook team but I have to say
that the implementation of the recurring feature that allows you to open
individual occurances and change them but then makes it impossible not to
loose that information if you EVER want to stop that recuring appointment is
beyond dumb. How can we make it clear to the Outlook team that this is just
unacceptable, or am I the only one that feels that way?
 
Bill, I totally agree. I can only hope that the Outlook team monitors these
questions and repsonses and with any luck they will see what a huge mistake
they've made by not allowing us to cancel "all future occurrences" without
deleting all past appointments regardless of changes. This would be the same
option that Lotus Organizer gives you. If Organizer can do it, sure
Microsoft can figure it out.
 
I am in complete agreement on this issue. I had a recurring appointment set
up that was very very important (visitation issues). I had made changes on
many, many of the appointments in order to track changes. When I changed the
end date of the recurrence, I answered Yes to the message, not realizing what
it meant. I LOST ALL of those changes. We are talking about two years
worth!!!!! Fortunately, I had just done a backup of the calendar, so I get
them back, but I am telling you, it was enough to make me NEVER use another
Microsoft product!!!!!
 
I just got bit by this too. Really frustrating! Doesn't Microsoft do any beta
testing of Outlook with real-world users and scenarios? Everybody has
recurring appointments that change date or time every now and then and/or
permanently. What do they do internally -- not use recurring appointments?
The help was typically unhelpful on this as well -- no explanation of the
disastrous side-effects of changing a date or time of an appointment in a
series. You either lose your historical record (with no understandable
warning) or you can't stop or adjust a recurring appointment. Has this been
submitted as a high priority bug?
 
Couldn't agree more. I've looked everywhere for a solution to thi
one. I thought I was the only one who seemed to be bother by thi
(but couldn't understand why as I see it a very obvious problem.)
am currently using a pocket pc and it just annoys me so much as
used to schedule with my Palm. For the Palm os it was easy, wheneve
I want to delete a no end date recurring item, it gives me thre
options: 1) delete appointment 2) delete future appointments (withou
affecting old appointments) 3) delete all appointments. So simple an
obvious...
 
I think one lesson is never to schedule a task with no end date.
Another is that the full monetary cost of using a Microsoft product
should be increased by an allowance for the add-ins required to bring
the product up to the functionality that you could have hoped was there
in the first place. On the other hand, at least Office is open to
add-in developers and to user modifications.
 
ProfDD said:
I think one lesson is never to schedule a task with no end date.
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Even if you originally defined the recurrence with an end date, if you ever
need to change it, you get the same problem. It's user-hostile!
 
I agree... please fix this Microsoft!!!!!!!

GE said:
I just got bit by this too. Really frustrating! Doesn't Microsoft do any beta
testing of Outlook with real-world users and scenarios? Everybody has
recurring appointments that change date or time every now and then and/or
permanently. What do they do internally -- not use recurring appointments?
The help was typically unhelpful on this as well -- no explanation of the
disastrous side-effects of changing a date or time of an appointment in a
series. You either lose your historical record (with no understandable
warning) or you can't stop or adjust a recurring appointment. Has this been
submitted as a high priority bug?
Click to expand...
 
Thanks for the advice - I just tried this add in and have found it very good
- it solves the problem for me!

Shen
 
Use Agendus Windows (which is actually a Palm desktop program/add-on
and change the dates using this desktop (it allows you to modif
current and future appointment without affecting past data). It's a
add-on to Outlook and so syncs the modified data to your pocket p
PIMS
 
one way for what?

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