Bulk-modify only future events of a recurring calendar event (i.e. "archive"/"freeze" past events).
It is helpful to have a record of past events/meeting as they happened.
Currently, modifying a recurring event (e.g. moving a team meeting from Tuesdays to Thursdays) will change all occurrences, past and future, which means the record of previous events is lost/not accurate.
When modifying a recurring event, users usually want to implement a change "from now on", so at the very least they should be given the option to modify (a) single event, (b) future occurrences, (c) all occurrences.
See Google calendar for implementation.
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Julie Davis
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Yes, this absolutely makes sense. Drives me nuts that the past meetings disappear from my calendar if it's just the future occurrences being deleted. Hard to "prove" you were at that meeting if it's gone from everyone's calendars!
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Anonymous
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The ability to update future events without affecting previous events of a calendar series is frequently required for diary management. Please add this function to Outlook calendar. We are in year 2021 already, and hope Microsoft can have this sorted soon.
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Michele Linch
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Can't really add anything new here - as I read down the list of comments - the ask is very clear and the issue it resolves is very clear - the past cannot change, the future does change. A "change only future events" seems to be the best fix here.
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Dave
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If this feature wasn't available in Outlook for the Web I wouldn't use O365 at all. But it is very inconvenient and quite irritating that, having paid the extra for the desktop apps, I'm saddled with this archaic lack of functionality. Please respect your users Microsoft, and sort this out.
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fastauntie
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Second the need for this.
I'm really commenting to second what another recent commenter said: "I wonder if google calendar is used internally at Microsoft." I have suspected for many years that Microsoft staff do not use Outlook, because nobody who has the power to change it would put up with some of the idiocies they force customers to endure.
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Anonymous
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How is this feature available on outlook 365 web app? I can't seem to find where to cancel or amend the recurrence there.
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Lawrence Cuneaz commented
This feature is available when using the outlook 365 web app
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We all need this implemented by now. It was requested back in 2018, now it is 2021 and the workaround of changing the reoccurrence in the IOS calendar no longer works. To not mess up all past instants of the event that have been updated separately when you need to make a change to the reoccurrence going forward seems like a core feature that all customers and employees of Microsoft need. I wonder if google calendar is used internally at Microsoft.
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Anonymous
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We need and our clients need the option to adjust future occurrences while leaving the past occurrences as is. The option to modify a single event, future occurrences or all occurrences is definitely needed!
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Anonymous
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I concur with all the suggestions, need to be able to adjust future occurrences and keep past the same. I look online every year to see if there is a solution, but alas ...
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Anonymous
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Please add this absolutely standard functionality - change / delete only future events - keep the past untouched!
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Anonymous
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do not affect past events please
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Britelle
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No idea why this isn't already a feature when literally every other email provider does this. HUGE GAP - time to step into the 21st century Microsoft and catch up. This issue has been raised many times in the past - don't understand why it isn't already a feature. Add these votes to the almost 2000 received previously - surly this is a high priority??
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K
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Also, being able to move a reoccurring event with your mouse over a day or two days in the future.(try and even that reoccurs every three days) In Google calendar asks if you want to move the future series or just single event and you just hit yes and it moves without having to open the series. See google.
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Vk
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To be honest... Outlook si already late on this.. :(
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Chris
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Very similar issue with 1900 votes already...
https://outlook.uservoice.com/forums/322590-outlook-for-windows-desktop-application/suggestions/20398333-recurring-meetings-option-to-end-recurrence-and -
Anonymous
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I add my support
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C
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Adding my support to this very necessary function!
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Anonymous
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I want to be able to change ONE meeting of a recurring event, not all! After the update this has been changed! Please bring it back as it was before!
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Cristina Bermejo
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I work with complex calendars.
I use recurrences to settle up meetings but sometimes there is a recurrence that has to be changed.
Sometimes, the need arises to end up these recurrences earlier than the date that was programmed originally. And here comes the problem: “If you changed specific appointments in the series, your changes will be cancelled and those appointments will match the series again”.
This is not applicable to a manager’s calendar because an executive’s calendar is the reflection of their work. And if you accept this statement, you change the agenda. The agenda is a document of great importance and cannot be modified in the past. A calendar appointment, for example, can be used to support an expense report’s audit or a conversation with a customer. I don’t want to bore anybody with more examples or specific situations but I can assure you that it is important not to modify calendars in the past. There used to be a feature that allowed to erase all meeting in the future without modifying the past ones and it would be very useful to restore it.
