How can I cancel a recurring appointment in outlook 2003?

[Chet P]

I have a recurring appointment and when I try to delete it, it only deletes
the one and the continues the recurrance. I am tired of having to do this
and believe that there must be an easy to delete the whole appointment and
stop it from recurring. When I change the details it just creates a new
recurring appointment, so I know that wn't work. Please Help.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Set the end date to today.

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[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

I have a recurring appointment and when I try to delete it, it only deletes
the one and the continues the recurrance. I am tired of having to do this
and believe that there must be an easy to delete the whole appointment and
stop it from recurring. When I change the details it just creates a new
recurring appointment, so I know that wn't work. Please Help.

When you attempt to delete a recurring event, you should be prompted whether
you want to delete the series or just the one recurrence. Does this not
happen?

Display your calendar in a table view like By Category and delete it there.

 

[britfence]

I had a similar issue: I had an appt set for 10 occurrences (i.e. not by end
date). afetr 3 meetings I wanted to terminate the series.
Of course, it would not give me the option to change the date, so I changed
the total number of occurrences to 3 and sent the update.
The only problem with this is that attendees received an update which they
had to 'accept' or 'decline', so several of them were confused as to what the
change was.
A suggestion: it would be much clearer if there was an option to "Delete all
future occurrences of this meeting?". It would also help if the resulting
message automatically included the appropriate response, i.e. include "Delete
future occurrences" in the subject line, and have a single action button
"Remove from calendar".

Then it would be a) easy for the organizer and b) easy for the busy
attendees; and we wouldn't lose history in the calendar.

What do you think?

Set the end date to today.

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I have a recurring appointment and when I try to delete it, it only
deletes
the one and the continues the recurrance. I am tired of having to do this
and believe that there must be an easy to delete the whole appointment and
stop it from recurring. When I change the details it just creates a new
recurring appointment, so I know that wn't work. Please Help.