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From: JGreg7 on 18 May 2010 14:06 When using Outlook 2007 (Windows XP) Calendar with the month view, the 2003 version combined Saturday and Sunday into a single day block. After reading many of the postings, it is apparent that this feature has been omitted from Outlook 2007. As an alternative, is there a way to differentiate the weekend days from the weekdays with some type of shading, or pattern, or something just to make them appear different from weekend days? -- Thank you, John Gregory
From: Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] on 18 May 2010 14:49 "JGreg7" <JGreg7(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:8F301B19-4FCE-4AEF-9B1D-F7E01ABCC35C(a)microsoft.com... > When using Outlook 2007 (Windows XP) Calendar with the month view, the 2003 > version combined Saturday and Sunday into a single day block. After reading > many of the postings, it is apparent that this feature has been omitted from > Outlook 2007. > > As an alternative, is there a way to differentiate the weekend days from the > weekdays with some type of shading, or pattern, or something just to make > them appear different from weekend days? Assign all-day events to them and color-categorize the events. -- Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]
From: JGreg7 on 18 May 2010 17:34 Thank you for your suggestion. I considered the all-day event idea, however I try to avoid "all-day" events since they tend to turn into multi-day events when daylight savings time occurs, or when I travel and the time zone is changed. (That is an issue I have been fighting with Outlook for the last three versions...it has improved, but never been really fixed). Since outlook has settings to designate work week, I would assume there would be some way to show this on the calendar in the same manner as the "work hours" are shown on the day view. (There should be a setting or option to shade weekend days, or shade workdays.) I would hope the folks at Microsoft are familiar with weekends.... -- Thank you, John Gregory "Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]" wrote: > "JGreg7" <JGreg7(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:8F301B19-4FCE-4AEF-9B1D-F7E01ABCC35C(a)microsoft.com... > > > When using Outlook 2007 (Windows XP) Calendar with the month view, the 2003 > > version combined Saturday and Sunday into a single day block. After reading > > many of the postings, it is apparent that this feature has been omitted from > > Outlook 2007. > > > > As an alternative, is there a way to differentiate the weekend days from the > > weekdays with some type of shading, or pattern, or something just to make > > them appear different from weekend days? > > Assign all-day events to them and color-categorize the events. > -- > Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] > > . >
From: Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] on 19 May 2010 08:16 "JGreg7" <JGreg7(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:9B8E4A93-4FB6-449A-8475-70D9BDACA16C(a)microsoft.com... > I considered the all-day event idea, however I try to avoid "all-day" events > since they tend to turn into multi-day events when daylight savings time > occurs, or when I travel and the time zone is changed. (That is an issue I > have been fighting with Outlook for the last three versions...it has > improved, but never been really fixed). I never had never had that problem because I applied the TZ patches when the DST settings changed. All of my all-day events have worked exactly as they should. Outlook 2010 should help a lot because you can pin all-day events to a date in a time zone-independent fashion. > Since outlook has settings to designate work week, I would assume there > would be some way to show this on the calendar in the same manner as the > "work hours" are shown on the day view. (There should be a setting or > option > to shade weekend days, or shade workdays.) Whether or not there "should" be a setting, there isn't one. -- Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]
From: Diane Poremsky on 19 May 2010 08:26
JGreg7 wrote: > Thank you for your suggestion. > > I considered the all-day event idea, however I try to avoid "all-day" > events > since they tend to turn into multi-day events when daylight savings > time > occurs, or when I travel and the time zone is changed. (That is an > issue I > have been fighting with Outlook for the last three versions...it has > improved, but never been really fixed). > > Since outlook has settings to designate work week, I would assume > there > would be some way to show this on the calendar in the same manner as > the > "work hours" are shown on the day view. (There should be a setting or > option > to shade weekend days, or shade workdays.) > > I would hope the folks at Microsoft are familiar with weekends.... > You can't highlight non-working days in the month view but they will be shaded in the week view. You can set the week to begin on monday so Sat and Sun are grouped at the end of the month as they were in older versions. http://forums.slipstick.com |