When you create a recurring appointment or a recurring event, Outlook 2007 automatically displays the recurrences in the calendar. A recurring appointment could be something as simple as a reminder to feed your fish every day or pay your mortgage every month. You can create a recurring calendar item by right-clicking the calendar and then choosing New Recurring Appointment or New Recurring Event. Alternatively, you can open a normal (nonrecurring) item and then click the Recurrence button in the Options group. Either method displays the Appointment Recurrence dialog box, shown in Figure 20-19.

Figure 20-19. You can specify criteria that direct Outlook 2007 to display an appointment or event multiple times in the calendar.

In the Appointment Time area, you set the appointment time and duration. If you’re creating the recurrence from an existing nonrecurring appointment, the time of that appointment is listed by default.

The Recurrence Pattern area changes depending on whether you select the Daily, Weekly, Monthly, or Yearly option, as follows:

At the bottom of the Appointment Recurrence dialog box is the Range Of Recurrence area. By default, the start date is the current day, and the recurrence is set to No End Date. You can choose to have the appointment recur a specified number of times and then stop, or you can set it to recur until a specified date and then stop—either method has the same effect. For example, to set a recurring appointment that starts on the first Monday of a month and continues for four Mondays in that month, you could either set it to occur four times or set it to occur until the last day of the month.