how to update recurring meeting in Outlook without losing history?

HI!

I can only end all future calendar invites without cancelling/changing previous invites through the web version of outlook on chrome. Granted this is my work email, so I am unaware if this works for person outlook accounts. I was able to right click on the calendar invite; click 'edit' and select 'this and all following events' without erasing the previous history of this calendar invite.

Unfortunately I don't think you can undo this. Once the history is lost, it's lost.

The best you can do is make sure it doesn't happen again. Do all your calendar editing in the web version, not the desktop version. It has the capability to make edits of "this event and all subsequent events", which the desktop version does not.

I now keep my Outlook calendar as one of my home tabs in Chrome and do the rest of my Outlook work in the desktop version.

Hi all,

Unfortunately, I have adjusted a recurring meeting already, losing all the notes I had taken on previous ones from the last year. Have been struggling to 'undo' or 'reset' my calendar to make my actions undone. Is there anyone to fix this, my 'undo' button in outlook calendar is greyed-out.

Thanks,

LH

Yeah, no, don't do that - you will definitely lose your history.

We've established that if you make changes in the Outlook web version (not the desktop one), you have the options of editing just the current event, this event and following ones, or all events in the series. This keeps your history of changes, and will sync to your desktop version with history intact.

One day Microsoft will see fit to make these options available in the desktop version as well, but I'm not holding my breath.

I now have my Outlook calendar open as a web tab and do all my bookings there. The rest of Outlook I use on my desktop version.

Cheers.

You could open the next upcoming recurrence...and instead of changing the dates in the recurrence menu....click the button on the bottom to "remove recurrence". This breaks the link between the recurrences. It also appears to remove future recurrences past this meeting. What I don't know is if the individual historical meetings keep current state once broken individually. So, do a test on a dummy meeting before you do this to you primary one of interest!!!!

Lastly, using the meeting you had open for the next future occurrence: turn this back into a recurring meeting based on the updated schedule. This will keep all your meeting details/agenda/etc. from your initial invite there for your use.

Do a test prior to changing on you important one...but this might work.