seems you have to open the "show quoted text" to read my solution and the 
original post.  :)

Or you can just watch the video ;)

-Al

On Friday, January 15, 2016 at 3:58:40 PM UTC-8, [email protected] wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I came across this post and I have a solution for you to consider.
>
> (Please see attached Video of these steps)
>
> The original Post:
>
> On Monday, May 26, 2014 at 6:51:54 AM UTC-7, Dwight Arthur wrote:
>>
>> Hi, everyone. Today is a holiday in the US and I should be doing yard 
>> work. But my @Yardwork context is closed and my @Work context is open and 
>> my TODAY view is full of stuff about getting the work week off to a good 
>> start. I went in to the "manage contexts" window and set @Yardwork to 
>> always open and @Work to always closed, but this totally wiped out the 
>> schedule that I had created for each of these contexts - tonight I will 
>> have to re-establish all of the days and hours that I want each of these 
>> contexts to be open.
>>
>> What I would really like would be a command that I could use today to say 
>> "Treat this Monday like it was a Sunday" and have all of my open and closed 
>> contexts from Sunday in effect. I probably would have also asked for this 
>> Sunday to be treated as a Saturday.
>>
>> Second choice, probably a lot less coding, would be to have buttons on 
>> the "hours" tab in Manage Contexts to say Override: Open context and 
>> Override: Close context, as well as End Override.
>>
>> Do any of you share this issue and how do you deal with it?
>> -Dwight
>>
>
>
>
>
> I am happy to offer this solution as I have receive so much help from the 
> all of you!
>
> My Solution
>
>  
>
> Simply make a New Context with the Open/Close the way you want it.
>
>  
>
> Please see attached Video of these steps.
>
>  
>
> Here is how I did it.
>
>  
>
> From the Manage Context (F8) Dialog box:
>
>  
>
> Pick the Context you want to change. I will use @Work
>
> Right click and Duplicate the Context. Work1
>
> Rename the NEW duplicate Context  (Work1) with a Name of @Work - Original
>
>  
>
> Now the important part: 
>
> Again do ANOTHER duplicate of @Work.
>
> This gives you @Work1
>
> NOW DELETE the original @Work!
>
> MLO askes you: Delete context(s) and assign tasks to another context: 
> Option to pick another Context.
>
> Pick @Work1
>
> Now the original @Work is gone.
>
> @Work1 has ALL your tasks assigned to it.
>
>  
>
> NEXT: 
>
> Rename @Work1 to @Work
>
> Now change the Hours to what you want (All Closed if that’s what you want)
>
> The result is that all your Views still use @Work and function the same 
> (only the Hours have changed).
>
>  
>
> To return BACK to the ORIGINAL Context and it's Hours:
>
> Duplicate @Work - Original to @Work - Original1
>
> Delete @Work
>
> Assign tasks to @Work - Original1
>
> Rename @Work - Original1 to @Work
>
>  
>
> Now the Name and the Hours are back the way they started.
>
>
>
> The written steps are a bit different than the video. 
>
> Hopefully you will see how to use another great MLO feature: Delete Context
>
>
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> -Al
>   
>

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