Multi-Day Repeating Events in Entourage

  • Thread starter DeWayne A. Nelon
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DeWayne A. Nelon

I have tried in vain to get Entourage to correctly represent multi-day
repeating events. An example is a multi-day meeting that occurs every two
weeks running M-W. When I create this is it always adds extra days and ends
up moving the event around in the week in a strange manner. I ³think² it is
confused by the multi-day part and creates new events that ³start² in the
³middle² of the event. Make any sense or does anyone have any ideas?
 
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Bill Weylock

Try changing it to a Recurring Event instead of a Repeating Event.


Best,


- Bill


I have tried in vain to get Entourage to correctly represent multi-day
repeating events. An example is a multi-day meeting that occurs every two
weeks running M-W. When I create this is it always adds extra days and ends
up moving the event around in the week in a strange manner. I ³think² it is
confused by the multi-day part and creates new events that ³start² in the
³middle² of the event. Make any sense or does anyone have any ideas?
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Panther 10.3.4
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DeWayne A. Nelon

I used the wrong term. The events are ³recurring² as I do use the ³Occurs²
pull down in the Create Event dialog box.



From: Bill Weylock <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 06:58:08 -0700
Subject: Re: Multi-Day Repeating Events in Entourage

Try changing it to a Recurring Event instead of a Repeating Event.


Best,


- Bill


I have tried in vain to get Entourage to correctly represent multi-day
repeating events. An example is a multi-day meeting that occurs every two
weeks running M-W. When I create this is it always adds extra days and ends
up moving the event around in the week in a strange manner. I ³think² it is
confused by the multi-day part and creates new events that ³start² in the
³middle² of the event. Make any sense or does anyone have any ideas?
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Panther 10.3.4
Office 2004
 
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Bill Weylock

And I completely overlooked the word ³multi-day².

Are you trying to set up a multi-day event that starts (for instance) at 8AM
and ends at 5PM? To do that, you need to set up three separate day events
and repeat them all.

If you want to set it up as a single even that spans several days, you need
to check ³All Day Event². I think that may solve it.

If not, I don¹t have anything else to suggest. Hope that helps. Sorry if
not.


Best,


- Bill


I used the wrong term. The events are ³recurring² as I do use the ³Occurs²
pull down in the Create Event dialog box.



From: Bill Weylock <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 06:58:08 -0700
Subject: Re: Multi-Day Repeating Events in Entourage

Try changing it to a Recurring Event instead of a Repeating Event.


Best,


- Bill







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Paul Berkowitz

Right, If you make it an all-day multi-day event, you should have no
problems. If it's a regular timed event planning several days, beginning at
8 AM on the first day and ending 5 PM on the third day, I think that might
be asking for trouble on recurrences. Theoretically, it should be
programmable, but I can believe things might go awry.

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From: Bill Weylock <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 02:54:46 -0700
Subject: Re: Multi-Day Repeating Events in Entourage

And I completely overlooked the word ³multi-day².

Are you trying to set up a multi-day event that starts (for instance) at 8AM
and ends at 5PM? To do that, you need to set up three separate day events
and repeat them all.

If you want to set it up as a single even that spans several days, you need
to check ³All Day Event². I think that may solve it.

If not, I don¹t have anything else to suggest. Hope that helps. Sorry if
not.


Best,


- Bill


I used the wrong term. The events are ³recurring² as I do use the ³Occurs²
pull down in the Create Event dialog box.



From: Bill Weylock <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 06:58:08 -0700
Subject: Re: Multi-Day Repeating Events in Entourage

Try changing it to a Recurring Event instead of a Repeating Event.


Best,


- Bill







Panther 10.3.4
Office 2004
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Panther 10.3.4
Office 2004
 
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DeWayne A. Nelon

Right, If you make it an all-day multi-day event, you should have no problems.
If it's a regular timed event planning several days, beginning at 8 AM on the
first day and ending 5 PM on the third day, I think that might be asking for
trouble on recurrences. Theoretically, it should be programmable, but I can
believe things might go awry.
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Sorry for the delayed response as I turned my attention elsewhere for a
while. The event is marked ³all-day² and spans multiple days. What I am
trying to reflect is a Friday-Tuesday event that occurs every two weeks.
What Entourage does is spread the event throughout the calendar rather than
starting ³every other² Friday. I select the weekly recurrence (using 2
instead of 1 weeks) and select the starting weekday (in this case Friday).
I think that Entourage is confused by the multi day and actually tries to
make the multi day event recur every two weeks but uses each day in the
event as a starting point so that I end up with a real mess.
 
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