> Marcus welch discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>

>> This begs the question, why don't Microsoft make a recurring
>> appointment a series of seperate entries, you could then change any
>> one of the individual appointments, this would help PA's trying to
>> enter meeting for say year, they could then write the one entry over
>> the year recurring, the change a single entry or all future entries
>> with no problems.

>
> You didn't quote any of the message to which you were replying so there is
> no context, but I believe I recall the conversation.
>
> I can speculate as to why Microsoft made recurrences computed items
> instead of real items, but I have no inside knowledge. I suspect that the
> space saving in the calendar is subtantial and that it would have been
> difficult to program the calendar to find all the recurrences if they were
> separate items. Moreover, changing a recurrence would have consumed
> significant computer time to locate, delete, and regenerate all the
> recurrence items were they actually separate items in the calendar.
> --
> Brian Tillman