A recurring appointment in Outlook 2007 calendar will not delete

[KeithB]

When I try to remove a recurring appointment in Outlook 2007 calendar I
cannot do so because the "remove recurrence" button is grayed out. How can I
delete? TIA

 

[Nikki Peterson]

To delete the recurring appointment all you need to do is use the DELETE
button.

The "remove recurrence" would only make the meeting a non-recurring meeting.
It would not remove the meeting, only the fact that it is recurring.

If you want to keep the meeting history (previous meetings that were part of
the
recurrance) then you could set the recurring meeting to END today. This
would
stop the future meetings from showing on your calendar, but keep the
previous
ones.

Nikki Peterson

 

[Brian Tillman]

If you want to keep the meeting history (previous meetings that were
part of the
recurrance) then you could set the recurring meeting to END today.
This would
stop the future meetings from showing on your calendar, but keep the
previous
ones.

Unless there are exceptions in the recurrence. Those will be removed if you
change the end point.

 

[KeithB]

Brian, thank you for our response to my question. I can delete each
appointment individually, however when I try to stop the recurrence (my
appointments that I want to cancel go out to 2009) and I set the date for the
last appointment (in the Appointment Recurrence window) as today, I get this
message: "The recurrence pattern is not valid". I do not care about keeping
any of these in history. This problem started happening when I mirgrated from
Office 2003 to Office 2007. Thanks again for your efforts. Keith

 

[Brian Tillman]

Brian, thank you for our response to my question. I can delete each
appointment individually, however when I try to stop the recurrence
(my appointments that I want to cancel go out to 2009) and I set the
date for the last appointment (in the Appointment Recurrence window)
as today, I get this message: "The recurrence pattern is not valid".
I do not care about keeping any of these in history. This problem
started happening when I mirgrated from Office 2003 to Office 2007.

What if you set it for tomorrow? Have you tried copying the recurring event
to a different calendar folder and then tried the change there?

 

[Jonah H]

Dear Brian,

Thank you for sharing your expertise about Outlook. I find the handling of
recurrent appointments in Outlook 2007 to be cumbersome and sloppy. I
schedule patients, who have recurring appointments that often change, and I
need to keep the history of the schedule intact. Often (too often to use an
export/import workaround) I need the function "change future appointments,"
which doesn't exist.

The solution I use is to keep my calendar synchronized with Google Calendar,
which handles this particular issue more logically, and to make the change in
the Google calendar. I sure wish, though, that Outlook could simply let me
change future occurrences and end dates.