Stop Outlook from Changing my Dates and Times!!!!

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pinchvalve

When I go to an appointment in my calendar to change a start date or
time, Outlook automatically decides to change the end dat or time as
well! Same goes if I change an end time, Outlook will push the Start
date or time around!! This is so stupid!

If a MON-FRI appointment changes to a TUE start time, I should be able
to go in and change MON to TUE. Done, Period. End of story. But
Outlook insists that my meeting is now a TUE - SAT meeting. WFT?
Don't think for me, just accept what I type in. If it has moved to
end on Saturday, I will tell you!

Anyone know how to turn this stupid "feature" off. I cannot find it
anywhere on the web or support.
 
F

F. H. Muffman

When I go to an appointment in my calendar to change a start date or
time, Outlook automatically decides to change the end dat or time as
well! Same goes if I change an end time, Outlook will push the Start
date or time around!! This is so stupid!

If a MON-FRI appointment changes to a TUE start time, I should be able
to go in and change MON to TUE. Done, Period. End of story. But
Outlook insists that my meeting is now a TUE - SAT meeting. WFT?
Don't think for me, just accept what I type in. If it has moved to
end on Saturday, I will tell you!

Anyone know how to turn this stupid "feature" off. I cannot find it
anywhere on the web or support.


Nope no way to change it. Once you've created an appointment, Outlook is
going to assume that your appointment is going to stay as that length in
time and if you're changing the start time, you're changing the start time.

In fact, think of it that way.

You're not changing the *length* of the meeting. You're changing the start
time of the meeting. It's still going to be 2 hours long and Outlook is
going to assume that the end time should be changed too.

Is it stupid design? No. In fact, if you changed it, other people would be
upset at the change.

If you make it configurable, an already unwieldy Tools-Options just becomes
even more so.
 
T

Tivona.Schneider

Nope no way to change it. Once you've created an appointment, Outlook is
going to assume that your appointment is going to stay as that length in
time and if you're changing the start time, you're changing the start time.

In fact, think of it that way.

You're not changing the *length* of the meeting. You're changing the start
time of the meeting. It's still going to be 2 hours long and Outlook is
going to assume that the end time should be changed too.

Is it stupid design? No. In fact, if you changed it, other people would be
upset at the change.

If you make it configurable, an already unwieldy Tools-Options just becomes
even more so.

If you are in an office situation where meetings are often back to
back, having a Outlook automatically push the end time of one meeting
into your next meeting is stupid. It causes all sorts of conflicts
and problems. There should be an option to turn this off.
 
F

F. H. Muffman

If you are in an office situation where meetings are often back to
back, having a Outlook automatically push the end time of one meeting
into your next meeting is stupid. It causes all sorts of conflicts
and problems. There should be an option to turn this off.


I disagree, I agree and I disagree.

No, it isn't stupid. It's a design choice. I'm sure there are as many
people who would be upset if the functionality was the reverse.

Yes, there should be an option to turn this off. I'm a fan of
configurability.

No, there *shouldn't* be an option to turn this off because, frankly,
Outlook's Tools Options are already so deep and ... err... configurable that
this setting would just get lost.

FWIW, I come from an environment with back to back meetings and I don't find
it stupid.

As an aside, in 2007 if I open up Week or Day view, I can drag the beginning
or end of the appointment and the opposite end does not change. Its only
when you open the appointment itself that the opposite end changes.
 
T

Tivona.Schneider

The default should be the other way around. Let the few people who
would actually want this stupid feature work around it, not the rest
of us. And not including a nescessary configuration option because
there are too many already? Again, Outlook has clogged wth so many
useless features, but the ones we want we can't have, STUPID.
 
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Brian Tillman

The default should be the other way around. Let the few people who
would actually want this stupid feature work around it, not the rest
of us.

I'd wager you and whomever ewlse you include in "us" are in the vast
minority.
 
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Pinchvalve

Well, consider me in the minority too, and my whole office, and
everyone I know, and the average user who doesn't frequent boards like
this. I finally got through to Microsoft and it is in fact by design
and they agreed that it was stupid and should be changed. So add them
to the list as well.
 
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Brian Tillman

Pinchvalve said:
Well, consider me in the minority too, and my whole office, and
everyone I know, and the average user who doesn't frequent boards like
this. I finally got through to Microsoft and it is in fact by design
and they agreed that it was stupid and should be changed. So add them
to the list as well.

I'm glad you had success in convincing Microsoft that it should be changed.
Just don't hold your breath waiting.
 

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