John asks “I’d be happy if I could get my calendar to start with showing the start of my workday just below the all day events — instead of 5AM. My workday starts at 8AM. I have reset my view, thinking maybe there was something in my customized view. Any ideas?”
This is another case where size matters. When the window height is large and the time scale set to longer periods (i.e., 1 hour), you’ll see all or part of your non-working hours in the view. When the window is smaller or the time scale uses shorter periods (i.e., 15 min), you’ll see the start of the work day and as much of the rest of the day that fits in the view.
Published May 12 2008
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If you may care to revisit this tip from 2008, I wonder if you may have any new information on this challenge, or if perhaps someone from MS may observe it and give some consideration to an improvement.
Like the original poster, i really do not care to see overnight hours in my Outlook calendar’s display of a week. I appreciate your point that the larger the screen, the more hours we would see. Still, regardless of how large my screen i, I’d rather it show more space per hour than more hours.
Per your suggestion, I tried changing to the 30 minute view (using view>current view>customize current view, for others who may want to try it), but then unfortunately it did not show all hours in my normal workday on screen.
At least there’s a little relief in that if we adjust the screen by sliding the windows scrollbar down (which or me hides the hours of midnite to 3am), at least that gets remembers when I close and reopen the calendar. Still, it is a waste of about 1/3 of the screen showing me hours that are blank, when it could spread out to show more of the hours I AM interested in.
It would be nice if instead this view was configurable by us to set it to show the hours between x and y on screen by default, and size accordingly. Then we could scroll up or down to see times outside those “normal” hours.
Hope that may interest other readers. Add your vote here, if indeed you may stumble upon this now 3 years deep in the archives. :-)
Made a couple of typos in my last comment above. Meant, “which *for* me hides the hours of midnite to 3am” and “at least that gets *remembered*”. :-)
There is no change or new information, sorry. But thanks for reminding me – I’ll add it to my list of things to check in the upcoming Outlook 15 beta then file a bug report if there is no improvement.