How to alter future meetings without changing the past events in a series of repeated meetings?

I agree with what others in this thread have said about the inconvenience of not being able to change future occurrences without that moving past meetings, as well as not wanting to edit each meeting occurrence individually. This seems like a significant oversight in the software.

Another thing I will add to this, because I just went to change the end date of a recurring meeting to reschedule a new one at a different time (in order to preserve past occurrences), is that I received the following notice: "If you changed specific appointments in the series, your changes will be cancelled and those appointments will match the series again".

I had rescheduled a singular previous meeting's time, and now the work-around of changing the end date the original meeting & rescheduling with the changed time is also not an option if I need to preserve past meetings in my calendar. I guess I get to annoy my superiors with a dozen emails changing the times individually.

Please fix this, it makes users look unprofessional & is just an unnecessary headache.

Yep. This is extremely annoying. Microsoft co-pilot repeating at me that it's not an issue is also extremely annoying.

The only solution is manually changing all appts individually.

Anything that occurred in the past should not be edited/editable after the event/meeting has occurred. . It's a record of the past.

Unfortunately, it doesn't actually show the change I made when I sent the update to invitees. Only I can see the changes made. Hoping someone has found a solution.

STILL HAVE THIS PROBLEM - it's a loss of functionality. The past is wiped out when you change the future!

Hi, Jagdeep Singh Sekhon

Please be kindly to share your detailed client version and we will have a test and see if we can get it on your version.

Thanks for your understanding and cooperation.

Regards,

Alex.

Hi, Jagdeep Singh Sekhon

Good day!

Thank you for posting to Microsoft Community. We are happy to assist you.

According to your description, to alter future meetings without changing the past events in a series of repeated meetings in Outlook for Mac, you can follow these steps:

1. Open the series of meetings in your calendar.
2. Select the meeting that you want to change.
3. Click on the "Edit" button and select "Open Occurrence."
4. Make the necessary changes to the meeting occurrence, such as changing the date and time to Tuesday at 9 AM.
5. Click "Save & Close" to save the changes to the single occurrence.
6. A prompt will appear asking if you want to update the entire series or just that occurrence. Select "Just this one."
7. Repeat steps 2-6 for each meeting occurrence that you want to change.

By following these steps, you can ensure that only future events are updated to Tuesday at 9 AM, and the entries of all past events in the calendar remain as Monday at 9 AM.

Please let me know if you need further assistance.

Hope you all the best!

Sincerely,

Alex | Microsoft Community Moderator.