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chris
I'm having a problem with Entourage for Mac, part of the MS Office
2001 (Mac) office software package, that I'm hoping someone can help
me with.
The "bug":
Create a recurring appointment, say for 8 consecutive Thursdays at 3pm
(beginning at least two Thursdays ago), and then change the last six
of them (those occurring after today) AUTOMATICALLY to a different
day/time (not by dragging them one at a time), without changing the
first two (i.e. without having to change the entire recurring series).
Entourage seems to offer only the option of modifying automatically
the ENTIRE series of appointments - not just those after and including
a certain date. I need to be able to preserve appointment information
for appointments I've already conducted with clients (i.e. the date
and time of the appointments that have already occurred), while being
able to easily change (to a different date/time, delete them, etc.)
all appointments in the series on and after a certain date (but not
before that date). The only way I've been able to figure out to do
this with the Entourage calendar is to move each individual
appointment on and after this key date - one at a time, by hand, not
automatically - leaving the other appointments (those that have
already occurred) untouched. This, naturally, is prohibitively time
consuming, and really should be able to be done automatically (the
free Palm desktop calendar, and also iCal in Mac OS 10.3, does this
operation easily and flawlessly).
Is it possible to do this with Entourage in MS Office 2001 (Mac)?
In MS Office X (Mac)?
Am I missing something?
It certainly SHOULD be possible with Entourage; this seems to be
really a very simple and natural thing to want/need to do with
appointments in an electronic calendar (the free Palm calendar, and
the iCal program in Mac OS 10.3, do it very nicely, as I've said).
If it is possible to do this with Entourage, I'm definitely going to
want to invest the time and money in learning Microsoft Office. If
not, I'll probably have to piece together a bunch of different
programs to handle my office software needs. In OS 9, this would
probably mean: the old Outlook Express for email and addresses, Word
or Appleworks for word processing, Palm calendar for appointments,
etc. Or, I may have to invest the money in new hardware and software,
and move to OS 10.3: OS X Mail for email, iCal for appointments, etc.
This "piecemeal" approach to a workable office software solution
would, of course, really be a drag - I really want to be able to take
advantage of the power of integration supposed to be possible with
Microsoft Office. I'd much rather learn to use MS Office - an
integrated office solution (and I hear Entourage really is the best
email program for Mac) - if only I could get Entourage to do this VERY
simple thing with modifying an appointment series after (and only
after) a certain specified date.
CAN ANYONE HELP ME WITH THIS???
Thanks, very much, in advance.
2001 (Mac) office software package, that I'm hoping someone can help
me with.
The "bug":
Create a recurring appointment, say for 8 consecutive Thursdays at 3pm
(beginning at least two Thursdays ago), and then change the last six
of them (those occurring after today) AUTOMATICALLY to a different
day/time (not by dragging them one at a time), without changing the
first two (i.e. without having to change the entire recurring series).
Entourage seems to offer only the option of modifying automatically
the ENTIRE series of appointments - not just those after and including
a certain date. I need to be able to preserve appointment information
for appointments I've already conducted with clients (i.e. the date
and time of the appointments that have already occurred), while being
able to easily change (to a different date/time, delete them, etc.)
all appointments in the series on and after a certain date (but not
before that date). The only way I've been able to figure out to do
this with the Entourage calendar is to move each individual
appointment on and after this key date - one at a time, by hand, not
automatically - leaving the other appointments (those that have
already occurred) untouched. This, naturally, is prohibitively time
consuming, and really should be able to be done automatically (the
free Palm desktop calendar, and also iCal in Mac OS 10.3, does this
operation easily and flawlessly).
Is it possible to do this with Entourage in MS Office 2001 (Mac)?
In MS Office X (Mac)?
Am I missing something?
It certainly SHOULD be possible with Entourage; this seems to be
really a very simple and natural thing to want/need to do with
appointments in an electronic calendar (the free Palm calendar, and
the iCal program in Mac OS 10.3, do it very nicely, as I've said).
If it is possible to do this with Entourage, I'm definitely going to
want to invest the time and money in learning Microsoft Office. If
not, I'll probably have to piece together a bunch of different
programs to handle my office software needs. In OS 9, this would
probably mean: the old Outlook Express for email and addresses, Word
or Appleworks for word processing, Palm calendar for appointments,
etc. Or, I may have to invest the money in new hardware and software,
and move to OS 10.3: OS X Mail for email, iCal for appointments, etc.
This "piecemeal" approach to a workable office software solution
would, of course, really be a drag - I really want to be able to take
advantage of the power of integration supposed to be possible with
Microsoft Office. I'd much rather learn to use MS Office - an
integrated office solution (and I hear Entourage really is the best
email program for Mac) - if only I could get Entourage to do this VERY
simple thing with modifying an appointment series after (and only
after) a certain specified date.
CAN ANYONE HELP ME WITH THIS???
Thanks, very much, in advance.