Duplicate a calendar event with Microsoft Entourage
Microsoft Entourage v.X and 2004 currently do not have the ability to duplicate an event. This means you cannot create one event as a template for others.
However, you can create recurring events that serve much the same purpose, as long as you do not have to move the repetitions of the event to different times of day, and you do not need to duplicate the event to an irregular schedule not handled by Entourage's recurrence rules. If you have to do either of these, you will want to have at least two events, possibly with their own recurrence rules.
- Open an existing event.
- Select a recurrence option from the "Occurs" pop-up menu. You may choose a custom schedule for complicated repeating events, or you may select one of the defaults:
- Every Monday, or once per week
- Day 14 of every month, or the same date each month
- Every June 14, or once per year
- Every Day, or seven times per week
- Every Weekday, or five times a week.
Note: The recurrence rules are sent along with event invitations to others. - Click the "Edit" button next to the "Occurs" pop-up menu to make further changes, if needed. You will want to customize the recurrence schedule if you do not need to repeat the event indefinitely. Or, you may wish to do this if you have chosen one of the default options from the "Occurs" pop-up menu and need to customize. (For example, if you want to repeat an event every Monday and Thursday, you could start with "Every Monday" and customize it.) Click the "OK" button to close the resulting "Recurring Event" dialog box and return to the event window.
Note: You may experience extremely long synchronization times for your calendar if you create Microsoft Entourage recurring events with no end date. Instead, we suggest that all recurring events extend no more than six months into the future.- Enter additional repetition criteria to your event as needed to simulate duplicating the event to other days.
- You cannot add specific dates to the recurrence rules; if you need to repeat events on some irregular schedule between weeks, months, or years, you will need to create new events from scratch.
- Click on one of the following buttons in the event window toolbar to complete the event:
- Save, to save events where no other people or resources have been invited
- Send Now, to send the invitations immediately
- Send Later, to send the invitations the next time the automatic "Send/Receive" schedule runs next.
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