Recurring Tasks

[under the gun]

I am wondering what is the best way to use 2003 to schedule recurring meeting
where the dates of the meetings may change. I have a project which stretches
about 3yrs. I used the recurring task to preliminarily schedule the meetings
which occur bi-weekly. I then altered the dates for a few of the meetings.
Now I want to add additional meetings to the reccurrence list, but every time
I try it resets all my existing meeting dates back to the preset default
reccurrance. It would be nice to be able to keep meetings dates all on one
line and still have the flexibility to change or add meetings without
affecting the whole line.
Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Steve House [MVP]]

There's not really a way to do that - frankly, I wouldn't worry about it
initially, saving those final adjustments until you're in the very last
stages of developing the plan. I wouldn't bother to "fine tune" the meeting
schedule until your plan is essentially finished and you're about ready to
start work. It may not be necessary to nail it down precisely even then,
for that matter. You said the project runs 3 years. Is it really essential
that you schedule NOW for the exact date that a departmental progress update
meeting expected to take sometime around the 2nd half of February 2007 is
going to take place? If the meeting is to approve the new widget prototype,
for example, you're going to be lucky if you can accurately predict NOW
within a month-long time window when it'll really happen 2 years hence.

 

[under the gun]

Steve,
Thanks for your reply.
Actually, the project is already underway and we are revising the schedule
as we go. As I add and revise meeting dates, I do not want project to reset
all the old meeting dates based upon the recurrance preset. I guess your
first answer though was, "There's not really a way to do that," correct?
Thanks,