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I've heard a lot of complaints from users over Outlook's poor handling of recurring appointments and meetings over the years, especially when it comes to ending a series early.At least Outlook warns you before you do something stupid:Exceptions occur either when you move an occurrence to another time or date or when you edit an occurrence.The recommended … [Read more...] about Tip 991: Ending a recurring series of appointments and keeping the exceptions

When you view Outlook's day or week calendar using a time scale larger than the appointment time (such as 30 minute appointments in a one hour time scale) the appointments will fill the entire time period and at first glance, are longer than they should be and may overlap. However if you look closer you'll see a small "pan handle" that indicates the true length of the … [Read more...] about Tip 990: Appointments appear to be longer than scheduled

When you publish a calendar to Office Online using Outlook 2007 and up, your LiveID is saved by Outlook for automatic publishing of updates. If you want to change the LiveID you are using to publish, go to Account Settings > Published Calendars and delete the calendars published under the old LiveID, then click the Change Account button and sign out of the LiveID account and … [Read more...] about Tip 989: Change the Calendar Publishing LiveID Account

Would you like to have meeting responses sent to user who is not a Delegate?In Outlook 2010 (and up), you can use the option to direct replies to additional addresses. This option is available for email in all versions of Outlook but beginning with Outlook 2010, it's available for meeting requests too.When you direct replies to another user, both you and the other … [Read more...] about Tip 979: Send Meeting Responses to Another User

The following is a very popular request from users, especially towards the end of month:I'd like to change the default monthly view in Outlook to show this week and 4 future weeks. Currently it shows the current week and the prior four. Does anyone want to view past weeks more than they do future weeks? It seems like an odd default.While it may seem odd in the digital … [Read more...] about Tip 969: Can I make 'this week' the first week of the monthly calendar?