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

Anonymous
2023-10-31T06:05:24+00:00

Example:

  1. I have a meeting set up to repeat every Monday at 9 AM from 1st January 2023.
  2. Assume today is the 1st of November, and I want to move all the recurring meetings to Tuesday.
  3. Outlook allows me to change the current event or all the events in the series.
  4. Single-event change is OK.
  5. But if I have to change all future events, I have to select "Edit" >> "All events in the Series."
  6. This option not only changes future but all the past events as well.

How can I ensure that only future events are updated (to Tuesday 9 AM) and I still have the entries of all past events in the calendar (as Monday 9 AM).

Thank you in advance.

Update: I'd like you to know that this is now fixed.

If you open a recurring event and then click the edit button at the bottom left corner of the event window, it allows you to edit "This and all following events" ****

Thank you, Microsoft Team.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-03-29T01:25:18+00:00

    You can now do this with the outlook.com web interface!

    1. Click on the recurring event.
    2. On the window that pops up, click 'Edit'
    3. One of the options shown is "This and all following events."

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-03-27T15:31:40+00:00

    Good Afternoon,

    Are there any plans to change this? When I cancel each occurrence, it sends a notification to the participants. This is most undesirable when canceling 10 occurrences.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-02-20T19:32:50+00:00

    +1
    Can we get this feature changed?

    Changing a series and having it affect old meetings is just bad practice.
    The workarounds just end up spamming your recipients with un-necessary meeting cancellations and invites. It's an awful user experience.

    Thanks

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-02-12T20:03:01+00:00

    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.

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