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Ending Recurring Appointments without Losing Exceptions in 2003
Isn't there some way to end recurring calendar appointments in Outlook 2003
without losing all exceptions?? I see clients on a regular basis and set them for recurring, and sometimes i need to move them to a different time slot according to time demands. after i stop seeing the client, i still need to be able to go back to my calendar and have a record of when i did see them, including the "exceptions" when i moved them around to a different time. whenever i go into the recurrences tab to end the recurrences at a certain date, it makes me lose all exceptions. isn't there some way around this?? Thanks (I hope!) -- |
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Ending Recurring Appointments without Losing Exceptions in 2003
Jason McClure wrote:
Isn't there some way to end recurring calendar appointments in Outlook 2003 without losing all exceptions?? No. Recurring appointments are single calendar entries, with the recurrences being calculated from the base appointment. When you add an exception, Outlook keeps a list for the one item of where the calculation is to be modified. When you perform certain actions in a recurring appointment (like set an end date), it causes Outlook to regenerate the series, which resets the exceptions list. I see clients on a regular basis and set them for recurring, and sometimes i need to move them to a different time slot according to time demands. after i stop seeing the client, i still need to be able to go back to my calendar and have a record of when i did see them, including the "exceptions" when i moved them around to a different time. whenever i go into the recurrences tab to end the recurrences at a certain date, it makes me lose all exceptions. isn't there some way around this?? Here's how I'd do it. I've tested this, so I know it works. Create a new calendar folder. Display your original calendar in a table view like Active Appointments. Find your recurring appointment in the list, click it, and drag it to the new calendar folder. The entire appointment will move to that calendar, exceptions and all. Then click FileImport and ExportExport to a file. Choose some format like "Comma Separated Values (Windows)" - that's what I used. Select the new calendar folder with its single entry. Since recurring items can't be exported (there's no way to represent the recurrence in the exported data), Outlook will prompt you to select the time frame over which it should export. Select the start date to match the beginning of the recuurring appointment and an end date matching the date at which you want it to end. Exporting your calendar from the start of the original recurring item to its planned end date will give you a file containing the original appointment and its exceptions as individual entries. Delete the original appointment from your main calendar to clear it out, and import the file you just created, which will import the appointment back and include all the exceptions. Since you chose an end date on the export, your original appointment will stop there, but all your exceptions will be intact. You can then create a new recurring appointment from the new time onward. You can also delete the extra calendar folder you created, since you now have the information you wanted in your main calendar again. You don't really need to create a second calenar folder if you don't want to, but then you'd have to edit the export file to remove everything but the one appointment series, and I would find using a temporary second calendar folder easier because I don't have to sort through all the items I don't want. -- Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] |
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Ending Recurring Appointments without Losing Exceptions in 200
This is a horiible problem for me as well. Where do we go to submit a
request to Microsoft to get this fixed? I am unable to keep a history of where I have been. I guess the only way is to END the recurring appt. Set a single appointment "exception" and then create a new recurring appointment? That totally sucks. Microsoft has to have programmers smart enough to fix this...It already is asking if you want to lose exceptions, so why can't they go the next step and NOT LOSE exceptions! "Brian Tillman" wrote: Jason McClure wrote: Isn't there some way to end recurring calendar appointments in Outlook 2003 without losing all exceptions?? No. Recurring appointments are single calendar entries, with the recurrences being calculated from the base appointment. When you add an exception, Outlook keeps a list for the one item of where the calculation is to be modified. When you perform certain actions in a recurring appointment (like set an end date), it causes Outlook to regenerate the series, which resets the exceptions list. I see clients on a regular basis and set them for recurring, and sometimes i need to move them to a different time slot according to time demands. after i stop seeing the client, i still need to be able to go back to my calendar and have a record of when i did see them, including the "exceptions" when i moved them around to a different time. whenever i go into the recurrences tab to end the recurrences at a certain date, it makes me lose all exceptions. isn't there some way around this?? Here's how I'd do it. I've tested this, so I know it works. Create a new calendar folder. Display your original calendar in a table view like Active Appointments. Find your recurring appointment in the list, click it, and drag it to the new calendar folder. The entire appointment will move to that calendar, exceptions and all. Then click FileImport and ExportExport to a file. Choose some format like "Comma Separated Values (Windows)" - that's what I used. Select the new calendar folder with its single entry. Since recurring items can't be exported (there's no way to represent the recurrence in the exported data), Outlook will prompt you to select the time frame over which it should export. Select the start date to match the beginning of the recuurring appointment and an end date matching the date at which you want it to end. Exporting your calendar from the start of the original recurring item to its planned end date will give you a file containing the original appointment and its exceptions as individual entries. Delete the original appointment from your main calendar to clear it out, and import the file you just created, which will import the appointment back and include all the exceptions. Since you chose an end date on the export, your original appointment will stop there, but all your exceptions will be intact. You can then create a new recurring appointment from the new time onward. You can also delete the extra calendar folder you created, since you now have the information you wanted in your main calendar again. You don't really need to create a second calenar folder if you don't want to, but then you'd have to edit the export file to remove everything but the one appointment series, and I would find using a temporary second calendar folder easier because I don't have to sort through all the items I don't want. -- Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] |
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Ending Recurring Appointments without Losing Exceptions in 200
if you need a history, recurring events are not the best way to do it - its
too easy to lose all of your history. Create the events in excel and import so you have individual items that can safely be moved, copied or edited. -- Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/ Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/ Outlook Tips by email: EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange: Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com You can access this newsgroup by visiting http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...s/default.mspx or point your newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com. "Daphne" wrote in message ... This is a horiible problem for me as well. Where do we go to submit a request to Microsoft to get this fixed? I am unable to keep a history of where I have been. I guess the only way is to END the recurring appt. Set a single appointment "exception" and then create a new recurring appointment? That totally sucks. Microsoft has to have programmers smart enough to fix this...It already is asking if you want to lose exceptions, so why can't they go the next step and NOT LOSE exceptions! "Brian Tillman" wrote: Jason McClure wrote: Isn't there some way to end recurring calendar appointments in Outlook 2003 without losing all exceptions?? No. Recurring appointments are single calendar entries, with the recurrences being calculated from the base appointment. When you add an exception, Outlook keeps a list for the one item of where the calculation is to be modified. When you perform certain actions in a recurring appointment (like set an end date), it causes Outlook to regenerate the series, which resets the exceptions list. I see clients on a regular basis and set them for recurring, and sometimes i need to move them to a different time slot according to time demands. after i stop seeing the client, i still need to be able to go back to my calendar and have a record of when i did see them, including the "exceptions" when i moved them around to a different time. whenever i go into the recurrences tab to end the recurrences at a certain date, it makes me lose all exceptions. isn't there some way around this?? Here's how I'd do it. I've tested this, so I know it works. Create a new calendar folder. Display your original calendar in a table view like Active Appointments. Find your recurring appointment in the list, click it, and drag it to the new calendar folder. The entire appointment will move to that calendar, exceptions and all. Then click FileImport and ExportExport to a file. Choose some format like "Comma Separated Values (Windows)" - that's what I used. Select the new calendar folder with its single entry. Since recurring items can't be exported (there's no way to represent the recurrence in the exported data), Outlook will prompt you to select the time frame over which it should export. Select the start date to match the beginning of the recuurring appointment and an end date matching the date at which you want it to end. Exporting your calendar from the start of the original recurring item to its planned end date will give you a file containing the original appointment and its exceptions as individual entries. Delete the original appointment from your main calendar to clear it out, and import the file you just created, which will import the appointment back and include all the exceptions. Since you chose an end date on the export, your original appointment will stop there, but all your exceptions will be intact. You can then create a new recurring appointment from the new time onward. You can also delete the extra calendar folder you created, since you now have the information you wanted in your main calendar again. You don't really need to create a second calenar folder if you don't want to, but then you'd have to edit the export file to remove everything but the one appointment series, and I would find using a temporary second calendar folder easier because I don't have to sort through all the items I don't want. -- Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] |
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