I need my weekend days shaded in month view like Outlook 2003. I have
accidentally scheduled Monday appointments on Sunday numerous times because I
can't find this feature. Help!!

What days and hours are selected in tools, options, calendar options?
Non-working hours are shaded.

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"S Hess" S wrote in message
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I need my weekend days shaded in month view like Outlook 2003. I have
accidentally scheduled Monday appointments on Sunday numerous times
because I
can't find this feature. Help!!

I need help with this too. I need to work in month view. Seems crazy
that you wouldn't be able to show weekends in a different shade.


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geekett;72307 Wrote:
I need help with this too. I need to work in month view. Seems crazy
that you wouldn't be able to show weekends in a different shade.

This is what you should see - white (or light shading for old versions
of Outlook) and all non-working hours in color (or darker colors in old
versions).
http://tinyurl.com/ot94rq

There is not another level of shading for weekends, in part because
some people work on 'weekends' and Sat/Sun is not a 'weekend' for all
cultures.


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I found this "issue" after installing Outlook 2007 a few days ago. I am in
Month view most of the time. I schedule weekends events all the time, but
they are always personal events. It would make it much easier to distinguish
weekdays and weekends in Month view if I could shade weekends in the same
manner you shade working hours on a day view. This wasn't necessary in 2003
(and before) because of compressed weekend views. Now, shading is needed
because the compressed weekend feature is gone. I'm fine with it being gone,
but again, you need to replace it with shading.

So far I have - in using Outlook 2007 for 3 days - I've scheduled
appointments on the wrong day 3 times. I might have done that twice in 5
years of using Outlook 2003. It's simply easier to know what day I'm
scheduling an apointment for with visual cues that segragate week days from
weekends.

Please don't suggest I use a different view - I use this view because I
prefer it. I shouldn't have to change views, because of a usability issue.
Let's face it most electronic calendars shade weekend days because it helps
usability. Outlook 2007 should as well.

Thanks.

"Slipstick" wrote:


geekett;72307 Wrote:
I need help with this too. I need to work in month view. Seems crazy
that you wouldn't be able to show weekends in a different shade.

This is what you should see - white (or light shading for old versions
of Outlook) and all non-working hours in color (or darker colors in old
versions).
http://tinyurl.com/ot94rq

There is not another level of shading for weekends, in part because
some people work on 'weekends' and Sat/Sun is not a 'weekend' for all
cultures.


--
Slipstick
http://forums.slipstick.com

The only behavior that changed was compressed weekends - weekends were not
shaded darker on the month view (the whole calendar was shaded - light for
current month, dark for previous and next).

If the problem is getting used to leading Sunday when you had it at the end
of the week before (thanks to compressed weekends), go to tools, options,
calendar and set the calendar to start on Monday - this will put Sunday at
the end, with Saturday.

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"Chuck_Dallas" wrote in message
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I found this "issue" after installing Outlook 2007 a few days ago. I am
in
Month view most of the time. I schedule weekends events all the time, but
they are always personal events. It would make it much easier to
distinguish
weekdays and weekends in Month view if I could shade weekends in the same
manner you shade working hours on a day view. This wasn't necessary in
2003
(and before) because of compressed weekend views. Now, shading is needed
because the compressed weekend feature is gone. I'm fine with it being
gone,
but again, you need to replace it with shading.

So far I have - in using Outlook 2007 for 3 days - I've scheduled
appointments on the wrong day 3 times. I might have done that twice in 5
years of using Outlook 2003. It's simply easier to know what day I'm
scheduling an apointment for with visual cues that segragate week days
from
weekends.

Please don't suggest I use a different view - I use this view because I
prefer it. I shouldn't have to change views, because of a usability
issue.
Let's face it most electronic calendars shade weekend days because it
helps
usability. Outlook 2007 should as well.

Thanks.

"Slipstick" wrote:


geekett;72307 Wrote:
I need help with this too. I need to work in month view. Seems crazy
that you wouldn't be able to show weekends in a different shade.

This is what you should see - white (or light shading for old versions
of Outlook) and all non-working hours in color (or darker colors in old
versions).
http://tinyurl.com/ot94rq

There is not another level of shading for weekends, in part because
some people work on 'weekends' and Sat/Sun is not a 'weekend' for all
cultures.


--
Slipstick
http://forums.slipstick.com

Thanks for your reply, but you missed my point. I was saying that with
Outlook 2003, the stacked Saturday/Sunday WAS the visual clue to what day you
are looking at. Now that the weekend days are not stacked, you need a visual
clue to help know what day you are working with. It's a usability issue. My
point was that most other electronic calendars shade weekend days, and it
seems obvious to me that Outlook 2007 should as well. Why fight the obvious?

Chuck

"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:

The only behavior that changed was compressed weekends - weekends were not
shaded darker on the month view (the whole calendar was shaded - light for
current month, dark for previous and next).

If the problem is getting used to leading Sunday when you had it at the end
of the week before (thanks to compressed weekends), go to tools, options,
calendar and set the calendar to start on Monday - this will put Sunday at
the end, with Saturday.

--
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