Computers in the Medical Office 6th Edition by Susan Sanderson

Exercise 24

Schedule Li Y. Wong for a fifteen-minute appointment once a week for six weeks with Dr. Katherine Yan. Mrs. Wong has requested that the appointments be at the same time every week, preferably in the early morning, beginning on Wednesday, November 17, 2010.
1. Click the desired provider on the Provider drop-down list.
2. Change the schedule to November 17, 2010.
3. Double-click in the 8:00 A.M. time slot. The New Appointment Entry dialog box is displayed.
4. Select Li Y. Wong from the Chart drop-down list. Press the Tab key.
5. Confirm that the entry in the Length box is fifteen minutes.
6. Click the Change button to schedule the repeating appointments.
7. In the Frequency column, select Weekly.
8. Accept the default entry of 1 in the Every___Week(s) box.
9. Accept the default entry of W to accept Wednesday as the day of the week.
10. Click the arrow for the drop-down list in the End on box. A calendar pops up. Count six weeks from November 17, 2010. When you find the sixth Wednesday (counting November 17 as the first week), click in the calendar box for that day. The date 12/22/2010 appears in the End on box.
11. Click the OK button. Notice that "Every week on Wed" is displayed in the Repeat area of the New Appointment Entry dialog box.
12. Click the Save button to enter the appointments.
13. Go to December 22, 2010, to verify that Mrs. Wong is scheduled for an appointment at 8:00 A.M.
14. Go to December 29, 2010, and confirm that Mrs. Wong is not scheduled. This is the seventh week, and her repeating appointments were scheduled for six weeks, so no appointment should appear on December 29, 2010.