Overlapping appointments

[Louise]

We want to start using the Outlook calendar to book doctor appintments in our
office.
However, we have two docs and they overlap an hour from 12:00 to 1:00.
Is there a way to have their appointments both at 12:00 and know which patient
is for which doc.? Appointments are booked at 15 min. intervals.
Basically, have two 12:00 - 1:00 areas on the page.
We use Outlook 2003.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

The easiest approach would be to put the patient and doctor names both in the Subject field.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54

 

[Louise]

Thanks. I did suggest this to the person who would be using it the majority
of the time but she didn't like that. Oh, well, she'll just have to do
without.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Maybe this would work better -- put the patient's name as the subject and the doctor's name as the location. That will make it easy to group by doctor/location in a table view, as well as show both pieces of information in day/week/month views. Plus, she'll be able to pick from the Location dropdown list, which remembers previous values.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/article.aspx?id=54