We recently had a support call from a customer who had set up a recurring appointment within their Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 calendar to book a particular resource.  On one occasion, however, this appointment clashed with a public holiday and hence the customer wanted to remove one appointment without having to stop and then restart the sequence after the holiday.

There are two ways in which this can be done.  The first, using the features built into SharePoint to select an appointment and then delete the item.

This removes the individual appointment without affecting the sequence.

We reminded the customer that Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 allows the customer to select an appointment and to amend either that particular appointment or the entire sequence, should the appointment be part of a series.  The customer followed the instructions on our web site to connect SharePoint to their Outlook calendar and was successfully able to edit the sequence to remove one particular appointment.

Once inside Microsoft Office Outlook, double click the item you want to remove and choose “Edit Occurence” to leave the remaining appointments intact.  Then delete the item using the black cross.