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[Closed] Outlook calendar help?

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I've been asked to block out a recurring item on our Outlook calendar for work. Specifically, the last consecutive Tues-Weds-Thurs of every month. And... it doesn't seem possible, unless I'm being a plum.

If I do it as an all day event I can do it in one entry, but I don't want it as an all-day event, I want it as working hours. This seems to mean I need three separate daily events. Fine, except, if I select "the last..." and the month ends midweek then instead of Tues-Weds-Thurs I might get Thurs-Tues(next week)-Weds. Picking "4th week" just shifts the problem to if the week starts midweek, it takes it to mean the 4th Wednesday rather than Week 4.

Am I missing something blindingly obvious here?


 
Posted : 29/11/2021 11:27 am
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Pretty sure you'll need three recurring events for each day you want repeated.


 
Posted : 29/11/2021 11:29 am
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... which is fine if I can force them to be consecutive rather than split across two weeks.


 
Posted : 29/11/2021 12:08 pm
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Sadly it's sometimes quicker just to key it manually rather than force stupid software to do not very clever things. But you know that already 😉


 
Posted : 29/11/2021 1:18 pm
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No-one else have any ideas?

Have I found something STW can't answer?


 
Posted : 01/12/2021 1:43 pm
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could you generate it in some other calendar programme and import it ?


 
Posted : 01/12/2021 6:50 pm
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That’s the edgeiest of edge cases,
You could probably do something in VBA but TBH, I’d just whack them in manually.


 
Posted : 02/12/2021 6:51 am

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