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
    2024-04-10T14:17:55+00:00

    Hi,

    I still don't have an "edit" option on my end. I right click on the meeting and choose to open the series. I make the change to the time and click okay. Once I do that it gives me the message I wrote in the previous post ("If you changed specific appointments in the series, your changes will be cancelled and those appointments will match the series again").

    Are you able to let me know where I can find the "edit" button, please?

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-04-10T16:23:50+00:00

    I am able to do this using the web interface, but NOT the Outlook application.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-04-10T18:37:32+00:00

    Thank you, Ethan, I had just figured that out and completed the task when I received your message.

    I appreciate all the help received with this question!

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-04-11T01:30:08+00:00

    Hi,

    I still don't have an "edit" option on my end. I right click on the meeting and choose to open the series. I make the change to the time and click okay. Once I do that it gives me the message I wrote in the previous post ("If you changed specific appointments in the series, your changes will be cancelled and those appointments will match the series again").

    Are you able to let me know where I can find the "edit" button, please?

    Hi TattieM,

    First of all, I am using the below version:

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    When I open Outlook>> Calendar >> then double click to open any recurring event >> I get this option of edit in the bottom-left corner of the event window

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    I hope it helps.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-04-11T09:41:58+00:00

    Thank you so much for posting this - You have saved me (and probably many others) much frustration!! :)

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