Scheduling Recurring Appointments and Events

A recurring activity is one that is held at regular intervals, such as on the same day and at the same time each week. For example, weekly staff meetings and yearly physicals are recurring appointments, while birthdays and anniversaries are recurring events. You can schedule a recurring activity when you create an appointment or event, or you can indicate that an existing activity is a recurring appointment or event. A recurring activity displayed in the Appointment area also includes a recurring icon. When you change details for a recurring activity, Outlook asks if you want to apply your changes to the individual activity or to the series (all of the recurring activities). In the Appointment Recurrence dialog box, you choose the recurrence pattern-daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly. After you choose a pattern, the dialog box offers options based on the pattern.

Schedule Recurring Appointments and Events

Double-click an appointment or event in the Appointment area.

Click the Recurrence button on the Standard toolbar.

Click a Recurrence Pattern option.

Set other options depending on how often the activity recurs .

Click a Range Of Recurrence option, if necessary.

Click OK.

Click the Save And Close button.

Did You Know?

You can keep track of birthdays and anniversaries . If you enter a birthday on the Details tab of the Contact window, the birthday appears as a recurring event in your Calendar.