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[Steve JORDI]

Hi,
Is there a way to suppress appointments in Outlook by specifying
search criterias?
For example, I'd like to suppress all "Xmas Day".

I added the US calendar to my Outlook file and each event is
independant, not as a recursive event. So I can't suppress them
all at once. If I suppress "Ground Hog Day", it suppresses only
this occurence, but leaves them the following and previous years.

Any way to tell Outlook to suppress all events that contain, say,
"Ground hog"?

Thanks for any help

Sincerely,
Steve JORDI

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[Roady [MVP]]

Which method of suppressing are you using now?
You can apply filters to your view to hide certain items that you do not
want to see in that view. You can even do this by Category like "Holiday".
See http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/coloremailadvanced.htm

Note that you can also simply delete items that you do not want.

 

[Steve JORDI]

Roady,
thanks for your prompt answer.

Which method of suppressing are you using now?

Select the event and delete it.
Recurrent events ask you whether you want to delete the entire serie.
The events automatically added by the OUtlook US Calendar are all
individual events. You can't suppress one and have it delete all of
them for each year.

You can apply filters to your view to hide certain items that you do not
want to see in that view. You can even do this by Category like "Holiday".
See http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/coloremailadvanced.htm

Well that won't work. It's not about hiding event but suppressing
them.

Note that you can also simply delete items that you do not want.

Yes, but that makes hundreeds of them... it's probably about 40 events
on a year, then, I have to suppress each occurence from 1980 to
20xx... not a solution

I'd like a Find/replace like tool where I tell it, say,
Find: "Groundhog Day"
Replace: -nothing-


Sincerely,
Steve JORDI

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[Roady [MVP]]

Ok, so your definition of suppressing is deleting.
In that case you can modify your Calendar view to By Category and then
you'll see all the Holidays in the Holiday category. You can sort them by
alphabet to easily delete all occurrences of a single event. This will
actually be faster and more efficient than a find/replace.



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[Steve JORDI]

Hey thanks!
That did it...
I'm new to Outlook so I never actually tried this view by category
in the calendar view, only in the contact one.

So I sorted them by "Location" and selected all the United States
Events, pressed DEL and they're gone! Great!

Thank a lot


Sincerely,
Steve JORDI

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[Roady [MVP]]

You're welcome!