Outlook Fighter

I have been promoted - sort of. Well, my job description has been broadened. Actually, I haven't been promoted at all, it's just that one of my bosses indefintely got rid of one of his jobs by making me do it. So here it goes: Operations need to be planned. Who gets operated on when, especially important in the Dutch managed care system and especially undesirable job to have (patients calling, angrily, why the hell it takes so long before it's their turn). Anyway. My predecessor at this task used Excel to make three to four different lists to allocate time spent in different ORs with different staff and different equipment, and I plan on doing it the better, faster, cleaner, cooler way - with Outlook. Brings me to which: the spreadsheet creation routine of Outlook - brings me to - hours and hours of wasted time, trying to create a spreadsheet that works. Oh well. Back to Excel.....