Appts w/ different default lengths
 

Good afternoon --

Is it possible to set up different kinds of appointments that take different
lengths? For example, every time I want to schedule a haircut, it might be
15 minutes (I'm pretty bald). But every psychiatrist appointment might be 2
hours (go figure). Can I set up Outlook to remember that, for perhaps a
dozen different kinds of things?

TIA

Appts w/ different default lengths
 

Well, you can set up recurring appointments, is that what you want?

It's not very easy to set up an "appointment template" per se, though I
suppose you could script it with AutoHotKey. (http://www.autohotkey.com)


--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
http://www.officeforlawyers.com/outlook.htm

"pdberger" wrote in message
...
Good afternoon --

Is it possible to set up different kinds of appointments that take
different
lengths? For example, every time I want to schedule a haircut, it might
be
15 minutes (I'm pretty bald). But every psychiatrist appointment might be
2
hours (go figure). Can I set up Outlook to remember that, for perhaps a
dozen different kinds of things?

TIA

Appts w/ different default lengths
 

Ben --

Not quite what I'm looking for. My wife works in an office where they use
Outlook to schedule client services for each other. One kind of service
takes routinely takes 2 hours, another routinely takes 30 minutes etc. They
have an ongoing problem of the person scheduling not setting aside the right
amount of time, and it messes up a lot of people's lives. So I'd like
Outlook to remember that if they're scheduling someone for Service 1, it
takes two hours. But if they're someone for Service 2 then it takes 30
minutes.

Any way of doing that?

TIA

Peter

"Ben M. Schorr, MVP" wrote:

Well, you can set up recurring appointments, is that what you want?

It's not very easy to set up an "appointment template" per se, though I
suppose you could script it with AutoHotKey. (http://www.autohotkey.com)


--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
http://www.officeforlawyers.com/outlook.htm

"pdberger" wrote in message
...
Good afternoon --

Is it possible to set up different kinds of appointments that take
different
lengths? For example, every time I want to schedule a haircut, it might
be
15 minutes (I'm pretty bald). But every psychiatrist appointment might be
2
hours (go figure). Can I set up Outlook to remember that, for perhaps a
dozen different kinds of things?

TIA

Appts w/ different default lengths
 

Not natively but I am not sure if a coding solution would work. You might
want to ask "down the hall" at microsoft.public.outlook.program_vba or look
into code samples at http://www.outlookcode.com.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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"pdberger" wrote in message
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Ben --

Not quite what I'm looking for. My wife works in an office where they use
Outlook to schedule client services for each other. One kind of service
takes routinely takes 2 hours, another routinely takes 30 minutes etc. They
have an ongoing problem of the person scheduling not setting aside the right
amount of time, and it messes up a lot of people's lives. So I'd like
Outlook to remember that if they're scheduling someone for Service 1, it
takes two hours. But if they're someone for Service 2 then it takes 30
minutes.

Any way of doing that?

TIA

Peter

"Ben M. Schorr, MVP" wrote:

Well, you can set up recurring appointments, is that what you want?

It's not very easy to set up an "appointment template" per se, though I
suppose you could script it with AutoHotKey. (http://www.autohotkey.com)


--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
http://www.officeforlawyers.com/outlook.htm

"pdberger" wrote in message
...
Good afternoon --

Is it possible to set up different kinds of appointments that take
different
lengths? For example, every time I want to schedule a haircut, it might
be
15 minutes (I'm pretty bald). But every psychiatrist appointment might
be
2
hours (go figure). Can I set up Outlook to remember that, for perhaps a
dozen different kinds of things?

TIA