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
    2025-03-28T15:08:14+00:00

    Thank you - appears this only works on "New" Outlook & the functionality is no longer available on "Classic?"

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-03-28T15:23:29+00:00

    It is working for me & changes were made to everyone's calendar. Only in NEW Outlook though & you have to be careful to ensure you do this & the following and click send so it goes to all

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-03-31T20:47:55+00:00

    I believe this is only in the Teams calendar what you are describing. The Outlook Calendar does not show this possibility.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-04-01T13:19:57+00:00

    Screenshot from Outlook where I right clicked on my meeting & have these 3 options. This is only available in the New Outlook - not in Classic. When I right click on a meeting - the option to Edit comes up & I can select one of the three options.

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-04-04T17:28:58+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.

    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.

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