One set of machines has been recently upgraded from Outlook 98 to Outlook 2k. Another set of machines stays on Outlook 98, without upgrade. The upgraded machines present a very strange bug when you want to set up an appointmet by the appointment form (File/New/Appointmet).
If your date is between PM hours, no problem at all. BUT, if your date is between AM hours, when you finish to set up your initial hour and move to final hour (no matter if you move by mouse or tab key), then the initial hour resets itselfs to PM. This behavior repeats no matter how many times you try to correct the initial hour manually, by the drop down hour list, or writing the AM letters by keyboard.
The only workaround I have find is to set up the appointment by “drag an drop” the appointment?s box, over the graphical display of the calendar, on Outlook?s 2k main window.
There is a similar problem setting up changes to working hours. If you want to change the initial working hour in O2K, (Tools/Options/Calendar options form) THEN the initial working hour resets itself over and over to PM. If you press “Cancel” at this point, you are safe, but if you make the mistake of press “OK”, your AM working hours are lost forever.
One of my users inadvertly press”OK” after a minor change at this “Calendar options form” (initial working hour from 9:00 AM to 8:30 AM), and all of his working day was then shadowed as “non working hours” over the graphical display of the calendar, on Outlook?s 2k main window.
After several hours of frustrating work (review time zones, daylight savings on workstation and server, trying to reset the form, review every single configuration option in O2K), I only was able to give her a “half labor day”, beginning by noon.
I haven?t find any workaround to this because you can?t “drag an drop” the edges of working hours.
By the way, ALL of my Outlook 98 users are working fine.
Any idea, anybody?
