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Outlook Recurring Events - how to move from weekend to a next working day?

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There is an option missing in the Outlook Calendar (Microsoft 365 Personal). I tried to create a Power Automate flow myself, but I was unsuccessful. When creating a recurring event — for example, a reminder on the 15th day of every month, such as for a tax payment — there is no option to automatically move an occurrence that falls on a weekend to the next working day. Since banks do not operate on weekends, I sometimes miss payment deadlines because of this limitation. If I remember correctly, this feature existed in Outlook many years ago. I believe restoring or adding this functionality would be useful to many users. In the meantime I would like to ask your opinion how to fixx this using Power Automate / other tools.
Would appreciate your help.
There is an option missing in the Outlook Calendar (Microsoft 365 Personal). I tried to create a Power Automate flow myself, but I was unsuccessful. When creating a recurring event — for example, a reminder on the 15th day of every month, such as for a tax payment — there is no option to automatically move an occurrence that falls on a weekend to the next working day. Since banks do not operate on weekends, I sometimes miss payment deadlines because of this limitation. If I remember correctly, this feature existed in Outlook many years ago. I believe restoring or adding this functionality would be useful to many users. In the meantime I would like to ask your opinion how to fix this using Power Automate / other tools.
Would appreciate your help.
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  • David_MA Profile Picture
    14,624 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at
    I saw your post and don't have a lot of time to go into detail, but try this:
    1. When your flow runs, add a delay to your flow and set the delay to days.
    2. Then use this expression to calculate the number of days:

      add(if(or(equals(dayOfWeek(addDays(utcNow(), 0)), 0), equals(dayOfWeek(addDays(utcNow(), 0)), 6)), if(equals(dayOfWeek(addDays(utcNow(), 1)), 0), 1, 2), 0), 0)
       
    3. The expression will return 0, 1, or 2. 
    4. It will return 0 Monday through Friday.
    5. It will return 2 on Saturday.
    6. And return 1 on Sunday.
    The workflow will then pause until the delay is up and send you the e-mail on Monday.

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