While I found that slightly inconvenient, I thought I could merely edit the old event, which had no end-date, and give it an end-date of this week.  I would then create a new event on the new day and select that to repeat.  When I tried to do so, I was given the warning that in order to make these changes I would have to lose all of my past exceptions and data.  Much has happened over the past few years, and I strongly prefer to keep the record of any data pertaining to when individual occurrences were cancelled or moved and any notes that were made along the way.

This seems to be a glaring hole in the functionality of the Outlook.com calendar that doubtless is depended upon by many users for business purposes.  So, aside from the question "When will this be fixed," I would like to know if there is any sort of workaround for what it is that I want to do.  Any help would certainly be greatly appreciated!