date field in outlook

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I am creating a form in outlook (2003) to handle scheduling on a public
calender at my office. Everything scheduled using this form will be an
"All Day Event" so I have that defaulted on my form. But I am finding
that although I am inputting the correct dates and it looks correct on
the calender, when you open the meeting notice, the date field is
extended out one more day because the time field is showing 12:00 AM. I
have tried to change the "All Day Event" to be 12:00 AM to 11:59 PM but
it did not work. I am not by any means a programming genius so any help
would be appreciated! Thanks!
 
How are the dates being entered? Manually? Programmatically (show the code)? This is an appointment form?

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
It is a meeting request form and I am entering the dates manually. The
form will be used by a few different people so I am trying to make it
as user friendly as possible, unfortunately I am not all that tech
savvy...

Thanks!
 
This sounds like a usage issue, not a programming issue. If you want an all-day event just for Wednesday, enter Wednesday's date for both the start and end dates. If you want a two-day event starting on Wednesday, you enter Wednesday for the start date and Thursday for the end date.

If that doesn't fit your scenario, please describe in exact detail how you have customized your form and quote your original message so we can track what the actual problem is.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
 
I created my original form in outlook by placing a "start" field and an
"end" field to track the dates of the appointments. "Everything
scheduled using this form will be an "All Day Event" so I have that
defaulted on my form.", so I added the all day event field to my form,
checked it and then unchecked the enable box in it's properties.

The problem I am running into is when I schedule a meeting using this
form is that I will input my dates for the appointment into the start
and end fields, whether one day or multiple days, but an additional
"day" is tagged onto the actual appointment because the "All Day Event"
time goes until 12:00AM the following day. So if I were to schedule and
event for Friday, February 24th through Saturday, February 25th, the
form would add an additional day to the end of it and the appointment
would read Friday, February 24th through Sunday, February 26th. It will
appear correctly visibly on the calender and only block out 2 days, but
when you actually read the text, it will read that the appointment is
scheduled for 3 days instead of 2 days.

I have been unable to figure out how to change the default that makes
the "All Day Event" field schedule the meeting until 12:00AM the next
day. I have seen that other people have experienced the same problem.
What I would like to do is separate the date and time fields in my form
like on the basic appointment template, but that option is not
available with the forms.

I might be chasing the wrong issue here with the All Day Event field,
but any help would be appreicated.

Thanks.
Julie
 
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