How do change color on Outlook Calendar for occurence only?

[New WV 2007 Baby]

Ok, prevously used Office XP Oultlook Calendar, where you can color code your
appointments to mean something specific. You are able to go in and change the
occurence color without a challenge and still leave your serious separate
(ie; serious is all in orange becaue client is sheduled for regurlar
appointments. However he calls in and is caneling for a specifc day. I
normally turn his occurence into red for cancelling/rescheduling without
affecting serious). I can't seem to do the same thing in window vista 2007
outlook. It will only allow me to change it as a serious which means
everything would get changed to red and show all of the days as canceled.
Help?

 

[Judy Gleeson \(MVP Outlook\)]

I recall seeing posts about this before. 2007 doesn't do it - as you've
found. Try setting a Category colour just for this occurence - that may
work - or search for the older posts about this same issue.

Here are some tips about how to post questions:
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=555375

Regards

Judy Gleeson
MVP Outlook
Trainer and Consultant

www.pragmatix.com.au


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[Bill R]

Use Outlook's colored categories.
You can name each colored category to what you want.
When you assign a colored category to one occurance of a series then it
should categorize the whole series. It certainly does here. If it doesn't
for you then post back with the exact steps you are using.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Ok, prevously used Office XP Oultlook Calendar, where you can color
code your appointments to mean something specific. You are able to go
in and change the occurence color without a challenge and still leave
your serious separate (ie; serious is all in orange becaue client is
sheduled for regurlar appointments. However he calls in and is
caneling for a specifc day. I normally turn his occurence into red
for cancelling/rescheduling without affecting serious). I can't seem
to do the same thing in window vista 2007 outlook. It will only allow
me to change it as a serious which means everything would get changed
to red and show all of the days as canceled. Help?

Color categories are all there are and, as you've pointed out, you can't add
categories to single occurrences of recurring items. Sorry.

 

[Margaret]

The ability to change the category color on one occurence within a recurrent
series should definitely be made available. Not being able to change the
color for a meeting I'm not attending -- but do not wish to remove from my
calendar -- is not acceptable.

Please put this feature back in one of the upgrades.

Margaret

 

[Brian Tillman]

The ability to change the category color on one occurence within a
recurrent series should definitely be made available. Not being able
to change the color for a meeting I'm not attending -- but do not
wish to remove from my calendar -- is not acceptable.

Please put this feature back in one of the upgrades.

Microsoft employees rarely read this newsgroup, so unless you make this into
a request, MS won't see it.