Setting Calendar Items as Recurring

Many meetings, appointments, and events recur periodically. Instead of creating new calendar items each time, set the item as "recurring."

 

Setting a Recurring Item

  1. Compose a new appointment or open an appointment that appears on your schedule.

  2. Click the Recurrence tab.

  3. In the Start Time and End Time boxes, type starting and ending times.

  4. Choose Daily, Weekly, Monthly, or Yearly as the recurrence pattern.

    • Choose Daily for appointments that recur every day, every weekday, or after a certain number of days. In the Day(s) box, type the number of days between the appointment, or click the Every Weekday button.

    • Choose Weekly for appointments that occur every week on the same day. Select the day of the week on which the appointment occurs.

    • Choose Monthly for appointments that occur on the same day every month. Type the numbered day and the number of months between the appointments.

    • Choose Yearly for annual appointments. Select the month and day of the month on which the appointment occurs.

  5. In the Start boxes, type the date the recurrence begins.

  6. Choose No end date, End after, or End by to set the date the recurrence should stop.

    In the End after box, type a number to set the number of times the item should recur.

    or

    In the End By boxes, type the date the item should stop recurring.

  7. Click Save.

Changing a Recurrence Interval

  1. Click the calendar item on your schedule.

  2. Click the Edit Series button Edit Series.

  3. Click the Recurrence tab.

  4. Click Daily, Weekly, Monthly, or Yearly as the recurrence pattern, and then select options for the frequency.

  5. Click Save.

Removing the Recurrence From an Item

  1. Click the calendar item on your schedule.

  2. Click the Edit Series button Edit Series.

  3. Click the Recurrence tab.

  4. Choose None as the recurrence pattern.

  5. Click Save.