Funny, I have 8 years of calendar items, some archived and others not. Not
an accurate description - more likely a configuration issue.

Making a suggestion to Microsoft to add a feature that has been there in all
versions of Outlook since Outlook 97 is not a good use of the suggestion
feature.


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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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reading.

After furious head scratching, TGanges asked:

| For some strange logic that escapes me, the builders of Outlook have
| bulit into the software a limit of two (2) years that the calendar
| will be saved. Everything older than 2 years is automatically
| truncated. The user is thus prevented from searching events,
| appointments, activities and all of the other functions available in
| the Outlook Calendar. This is an unnecessary and illogical feature.
| The calendar items actually are small in size compared to the emails,
| which are generally huge in comparison to text documents. Besides, if
| the user can save an unlimited amount of emails, assuming that
| sufficient hard drive space is available, why not permit at least the
| same facility with the calendar. My calendar of appointments,
| activities, meetings, etc. is critical to me. I only discovered last
| year that everything I'd dutifully being putting into my calendar
| (contact, meeting information, etc.) had been summarily automatically
| deleted because of some arcane assumption by Microsoft that we users
| don't need more than 2 years of history. Is that the only history
| that Microsoft uses in its preparations and research -- just two
| years?!
|
| There are numerous functions and features about Outlook that I find
| troublesome, but you REALLY need to fix this feature. Please know
| that the ONLY reason I use Outlook and its features is because my
| university requires its use. If I had a choice, I'd be using another
| family of software. Please listen to us customers and make some
| extremely needed corrections. If we want to cut out all calendar
| entries before two years ago, one could have that feature installed
| as one which WE elect to TURN ON! Give the customer the choice
| instead of mandating some standard that Microsoft considers
| sufficient. PLEASE!!!
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