Events are really useful to show Birthdays, staff member's holidays etc.
During these times you are still free for meetings. It is easy to change the
"Show time as" setting to Busy if you want to use an Event for time when you
are not available. However, Events only show as a banner at the top of the
working day/s. This can also lead people to think you are Free. Use Events as
they were intended
--
Jim Hathaway


"Judy Gleeson MVP Outlook" wrote:

A good idea Sue - it comes up constantly in courses. The current default
doesn't seem logical to your average user in Australia.

Judy Gleeson [MVP Outlook]
Acorn Training and Consulting
www.acorntraining.com.au

Everyone - turn on your Advanced Toolbars and learn how to use the Field
Chooser and Group by Box!!


"Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]" wrote in message
...
No, there's no such setting to change the default for an all-day event from
Free to something else, although a lot of people have asked for it over the
years. (Maybe someone should post it as a suggestion in the web newsgroup,
so other people can chime in and vote.)

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers
http://www.outlookcode.com/jumpstart.aspx


"Jon in a hurry" wrote in message
...
I believe there is a setting to change the default from Free to Busy, etc.
If
you look in Google and dont expect the MVP persons in this group to help,
then you might find something good. MVP status used to mean yeah you can
ask
and they will actually give you a real reply, not some junk about its
their
holiday so who cares, if you become a MVP with that kind of reply, then
this
discussion board is useless.

"MikeT" wrote:

Hi Milly,

If it's a holiday then isn't that 'Out of Office'? If it's an all-day
meeting isn't it 'Busy"?

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

Why? Holidays are all day events and are certainly free for me.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After furious head scratching, MikeT asked:

| When scheduling 'all-day' events, the default is to show the time as
| 'free' which makes no sense. The default should either be 'out of
| office' or 'busy'.