Ending / altering recurring appointments In Outlook 2000

When i try to end or alter recurring appointments, i get a message "all EXCEPTIONS will be lost". I don't WANT that to happen, as i want a record of exceptions to refer back to, i don't want my history to be altered. does anyone know a way around this?
Thanks,
JonnyInstead of choosing no end to the reccurence you can select to end it after a certain number of times or by a date that will keep the previous records still in your calender.Correct. But if you then alter the series end date at any point or change the appointment time, you lose any exceptions. For example, set up an appointment to recur ten times. Cancel one appointment in the series. Then change the recurrence to 11 times, and the cancelled appointment will pop back again. Frustrating!Are you choosing to open the one occurrence or the series?
opening the single occurrence and deleting or changing it and then changing the recurrences AFTER that date should keep those changes without it popping back again?That's what i do do. Change one occurence, then open the series after that event, change the series in any way, and lose the change to the earlier event. May be it's a bug. Not just me, but a colleague has the same problem.
Can anyone else try it?If I am getting it right, you are changing the occurrence in a 'series', then changing the series again. As all of the occurrence's are part of that series then you are changing the whole series and so will have them all altered.

If you only want to change one occurrence then you would have to make it a stand alone event and not part a series.Even changing the series by giving it an end date after having "no end date", I lose the exceptions MADE earlier - e.g. one appointments in the series that i deleted pops back.Is it correct therefore that you cannot alter a series without losing any exceptions, even changing the end date? that means that say you set up a Tuesday meeting at 9.00, cancelling every now and then and deleting single instances of the series, that when the timeslot for the meeting changes to 9.30, all exceptions i.e. cancellations are altered? So when you look back in your diary, they have all switched to 9.30? And even putting in an end date for the 9.00 meeting so as to start a new series with the 9.30 start time will count as altering the series and all exceptions to the original start time will be lost?
Am i getting something wrong?
thanks,
JonnyRErm..? Yes.
You are changing an occurrence of a series, hence you have chosen the 'series'. If you choose that occurrence alone then only that part of the series is changed.

It's one on it's own (the single occurrence) or the series (all of the occurrences).Thanks PCWhizz

It means that if i set up a series, say, to see a patient every week at the same time (i'm a psychologist), but they or I cancel sometimes, when we decide to terminate treatment, the cancelled sessions I deleted are re-instated. so when i go back over the previous appointments the record is incorrect.

The only solution SEEMS to put in each appointment individually.

i thought computers were supposed to be good at this sort of thing. Why are exceptions all lost when they are in the past?

Thanks,

JonnyR