Can I cross-out days in the past or make them another color

[Guest]

I want to mark off the days as they go by, like everyone does on their paper
calenders, so I know what day it is when I look quickly. Does anyone have
any suggestions on how to do this? Thanks.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

You can't.

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After a lot of head-scratching, Tate Decker asked:

| I want to mark off the days as they go by, like everyone does on
| their paper calenders, so I know what day it is when I look quickly.
| Does anyone have any suggestions on how to do this? Thanks.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your help Milly. I would have thought that would have been #2 on
Microsoft's list of how to make a calender, right after #1 Putting the days
of the week on the calender.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

To put the days of the week on the calendar, change how your long date format displays under Control Panel->Regional Settings->Long Date Format. Change the Long Date Format to dddd.

As for the crossing out of the dates, most people know that the day before today is outdated and not relevant so it is not a major request.

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the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
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After a lot of head-scratching, Tate Decker asked:

| Thanks for your help Milly. I would have thought that would have
| been #2 on Microsoft's list of how to make a calender, right after #1
| Putting the days of the week on the calender.
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| You can't.
||
|| --Â
|| 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 a lot of head-scratching, Tate Decker asked:
||
||| I want to mark off the days as they go by, like everyone does on
||| their paper calenders, so I know what day it is when I look quickly.
||| Does anyone have any suggestions on how to do this? Thanks.

 

[Guest]

There should be a way to adjust the color of future and past days such that
it is quickly obvious what day it is. Or a user should at least be able to
adjust the shading of "today" to draw attention to it. I hope this can be
forwarded to the design team for the next version of Outlook because when you
want to use the month view, this becomes important. As it is now, there is a
shade difference, but it is too close.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

If you change your Windows display colors, the difference can be made more
apparent.

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After furious head scratching, Downstairs in my lousy office asked:

| There should be a way to adjust the color of future and past days
| such that
| it is quickly obvious what day it is. Or a user should at least be
| able to
| adjust the shading of "today" to draw attention to it. I hope this
| can be
| forwarded to the design team for the next version of Outlook because
| when you
| want to use the month view, this becomes important. As it is now,
| there is a
| shade difference, but it is too close.
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| To put the days of the week on the calendar, change how your long
|| date format displays under Control Panel->Regional Settings->Long
|| Date Format. Change the Long Date Format to dddd.
||
|| As for the crossing out of the dates, most people know that the day
|| before today is outdated and not relevant so it is not a major
|| request.
||
|| --Â
|| 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 a lot of head-scratching, Tate Decker asked:
||
||| Thanks for your help Milly. I would have thought that would have
||| been #2 on Microsoft's list of how to make a calender, right after
||| #1
||| Putting the days of the week on the calender.
|||
||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|||
|||| You can't.
||||
|||| --Â
|||| 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 a lot of head-scratching, Tate Decker asked:
||||
||||| I want to mark off the days as they go by, like everyone does on
||||| their paper calenders, so I know what day it is when I look
||||| quickly.
||||| Does anyone have any suggestions on how to do this? Thanks.

 

[Guest]

I agree - I find it very cumbersome to easily see the current day. I always
use the month view and think it should be an option to color past and future
days.

 

[Guest]

I would like to do the same. There are several posts here that area all
asking for the same thing in one way or another (another post wanted to
"deemphasize" days in the past. What we want is for past days (and even the
current day) to be highlighted in such a way that one can tell at a glance
where you are in the week or month!

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

You can't mark off (or highlight) the entire day - you can use filters to
hide old appointments or automatic formatting rules that mark items dated
before today with a gray font.

outlook does highlight today a little around the date.



--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)



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[Guest]

Diane, can you explain how to do that?

You can't mark off (or highlight) the entire day - you can use filters to
hide old appointments or automatic formatting rules that mark items dated
before today with a gray font.

outlook does highlight today a little around the date.



--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)



Join OneNote Tips mailing list: http://www.onenote-tips.net/

I would like to do the same. There are several posts here that area all
asking for the same thing in one way or another (another post wanted to
"deemphasize" days in the past. What we want is for past days (and even
the
current day) to be highlighted in such a way that one can tell at a glance
where you are in the week or month!

 

[Guest]

Diane, I know you can't mark off days. The challenge is to get someone at
Microsoft to see that this is a feature that thousands of customers would
like! There ought to be settings that allow one a variety of methods for
"marking the dates". Know anybody in Microsofts's office group?

You can't mark off (or highlight) the entire day - you can use filters to
hide old appointments or automatic formatting rules that mark items dated
before today with a gray font.

outlook does highlight today a little around the date.



--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)



Join OneNote Tips mailing list: http://www.onenote-tips.net/

I would like to do the same. There are several posts here that area all
asking for the same thing in one way or another (another post wanted to
"deemphasize" days in the past. What we want is for past days (and even
the
current day) to be highlighted in such a way that one can tell at a glance
where you are in the week or month!

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

We all know folks in Microsoft's Office group as well as Outlook and believe me, this is far down on the wish list and even further down on the list of items to program. Foremost right now is fixing the performance issues with Outlook 2007.

Marking past days with an X is both very hard to do and very unlikely to be done. If you would really like this feature, then put in a wish on the Microsoft Office site but don't hold your breath.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, BruceM asked:

| Diane, I know you can't mark off days. The challenge is to get
| someone at Microsoft to see that this is a feature that thousands of
| customers would like! There ought to be settings that allow one a
| variety of methods for "marking the dates". Know anybody in
| Microsofts's office group?
|
| "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:
|
|| You can't mark off (or highlight) the entire day - you can use
|| filters to hide old appointments or automatic formatting rules that
|| mark items dated before today with a gray font.
||
|| outlook does highlight today a little around the date.
||
||
||
|| --
|| Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
|| Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
|| Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
|| Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)
||
||
||
|| Join OneNote Tips mailing list: http://www.onenote-tips.net/
||
||
|| ||| I would like to do the same. There are several posts here that
||| area all asking for the same thing in one way or another (another
||| post wanted to "deemphasize" days in the past. What we want is for
||| past days (and even the
||| current day) to be highlighted in such a way that one can tell at a
||| glance where you are in the week or month!
|||
||| "Tate Decker" wrote:
|||
|||| I want to mark off the days as they go by, like everyone does on
|||| their paper
|||| calenders, so I know what day it is when I look quickly. Does
|||| anyone have
|||| any suggestions on how to do this? Thanks.

 

[Guest]

My question is similar but a tad different.

The default Calendar view in Outlook shows you the current week at the very
bottom, looking back at the past 4 weeks.

Obviously the appointments and meetings in the future are more important.
How do I change it so I'm seeing maybe, only 1 week in the past at the top
and the coming weeks at the bottom?

Thanks,
Evan

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

I presume you are talking about the month view? If yes, you asked for a month view and that is what you are seeing, the entire current month.

If you want a month ahead view, change to the daily view and then swipe an entire month from the data navigator. This method will always keep the current week at the top.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, edonovan52 asked:

| My question is similar but a tad different.
|
| The default Calendar view in Outlook shows you the current week at
| the very bottom, looking back at the past 4 weeks.
|
| Obviously the appointments and meetings in the future are more
| important. How do I change it so I'm seeing maybe, only 1 week in the
| past at the top and the coming weeks at the bottom?
|
| Thanks,
| Evan
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| We all know folks in Microsoft's Office group as well as Outlook and
|| believe me, this is far down on the wish list and even further down
|| on the list of items to program. Foremost right now is fixing the
|| performance issues with Outlook 2007.
||
|| Marking past days with an X is both very hard to do and very
|| unlikely to be done. If you would really like this feature, then
|| put in a wish on the Microsoft Office site but don't hold your
|| breath.
||
|| --Â
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, BruceM asked:
||
||| Diane, I know you can't mark off days. The challenge is to get
||| someone at Microsoft to see that this is a feature that thousands of
||| customers would like! There ought to be settings that allow one a
||| variety of methods for "marking the dates". Know anybody in
||| Microsofts's office group?
|||
||| "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:
|||
|||| You can't mark off (or highlight) the entire day - you can use
|||| filters to hide old appointments or automatic formatting rules that
|||| mark items dated before today with a gray font.
||||
|||| outlook does highlight today a little around the date.
||||
||||
||||
|||| --
|||| Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
|||| Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
|||| Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
|||| Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)
||||
||||
||||
|||| Join OneNote Tips mailing list: http://www.onenote-tips.net/
||||
||||
|||| ||||| I would like to do the same. There are several posts here that
||||| area all asking for the same thing in one way or another (another
||||| post wanted to "deemphasize" days in the past. What we want is
||||| for past days (and even the
||||| current day) to be highlighted in such a way that one can tell at
||||| a glance where you are in the week or month!
|||||
||||| "Tate Decker" wrote:
|||||
|||||| I want to mark off the days as they go by, like everyone does on
|||||| their paper
|||||| calenders, so I know what day it is when I look quickly. Does
|||||| anyone have
|||||| any suggestions on how to do this? Thanks.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your help.

However, can you give me some steps on how to "change to the daily view and
then swipe an entire month from the data navigator" ???

Thanks,
Evan

I presume you are talking about the month view? If yes, you asked for a month view and that is what you are seeing, the entire current month.

If you want a month ahead view, change to the daily view and then swipe an entire month from the data navigator. This method will always keep the current week at the top.

--Â
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, edonovan52 asked:

| My question is similar but a tad different.
|
| The default Calendar view in Outlook shows you the current week at
| the very bottom, looking back at the past 4 weeks.
|
| Obviously the appointments and meetings in the future are more
| important. How do I change it so I'm seeing maybe, only 1 week in the
| past at the top and the coming weeks at the bottom?
|
| Thanks,
| Evan
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| We all know folks in Microsoft's Office group as well as Outlook and
|| believe me, this is far down on the wish list and even further down
|| on the list of items to program. Foremost right now is fixing the
|| performance issues with Outlook 2007.
||
|| Marking past days with an X is both very hard to do and very
|| unlikely to be done. If you would really like this feature, then
|| put in a wish on the Microsoft Office site but don't hold your
|| breath.
||
|| --ÂÂ
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, BruceM asked:
||
||| Diane, I know you can't mark off days. The challenge is to get
||| someone at Microsoft to see that this is a feature that thousands of
||| customers would like! There ought to be settings that allow one a
||| variety of methods for "marking the dates". Know anybody in
||| Microsofts's office group?
|||
||| "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:
|||
|||| You can't mark off (or highlight) the entire day - you can use
|||| filters to hide old appointments or automatic formatting rules that
|||| mark items dated before today with a gray font.
||||
|||| outlook does highlight today a little around the date.
||||
||||
||||
|||| --
|||| Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
|||| Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
|||| Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
|||| Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)
||||
||||
||||
|||| Join OneNote Tips mailing list: http://www.onenote-tips.net/
||||
||||
|||| ||||| I would like to do the same. There are several posts here that
||||| area all asking for the same thing in one way or another (another
||||| post wanted to "deemphasize" days in the past. What we want is
||||| for past days (and even the
||||| current day) to be highlighted in such a way that one can tell at
||||| a glance where you are in the week or month!
|||||
||||| "Tate Decker" wrote:
|||||
|||||| I want to mark off the days as they go by, like everyone does on
|||||| their paper
|||||| calenders, so I know what day it is when I look quickly. Does
|||||| anyone have
|||||| any suggestions on how to do this? Thanks.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Enable the Advanced Toolbar, then use the dropdown to change to daily view. With the Date Navigator displayed click on the current day and using the Shift button, click on the day 30 or 31 days out. Release your mouse and you should have a current month view that will advance with the dates rather than display the current month. Your week should always be on top.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, edonovan52 asked:

| Thanks for your help.
|
| However, can you give me some steps on how to "change to the daily
| view and then swipe an entire month from the data navigator" ???
|
| Thanks,
| Evan
|
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| I presume you are talking about the month view? If yes, you asked
|| for a month view and that is what you are seeing, the entire current
|| month.
||
|| If you want a month ahead view, change to the daily view and then
|| swipe an entire month from the data navigator. This method will
|| always keep the current week at the top.
||
|| --Â
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, edonovan52 asked:
||
||| My question is similar but a tad different.
|||
||| The default Calendar view in Outlook shows you the current week at
||| the very bottom, looking back at the past 4 weeks.
|||
||| Obviously the appointments and meetings in the future are more
||| important. How do I change it so I'm seeing maybe, only 1 week in
||| the past at the top and the coming weeks at the bottom?
|||
||| Thanks,
||| Evan
|||
||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|||
|||| We all know folks in Microsoft's Office group as well as Outlook
|||| and believe me, this is far down on the wish list and even further
|||| down on the list of items to program. Foremost right now is
|||| fixing the performance issues with Outlook 2007.
||||
|||| Marking past days with an X is both very hard to do and very
|||| unlikely to be done. If you would really like this feature, then
|||| put in a wish on the Microsoft Office site but don't hold your
|||| breath.
||||
|||| --ÂÂ
|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
|||| without reading.
||||
|||| After furious head scratching, BruceM asked:
||||
||||| Diane, I know you can't mark off days. The challenge is to get
||||| someone at Microsoft to see that this is a feature that thousands
||||| of customers would like! There ought to be settings that allow
||||| one a variety of methods for "marking the dates". Know anybody in
||||| Microsofts's office group?
|||||
||||| "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:
|||||
|||||| You can't mark off (or highlight) the entire day - you can use
|||||| filters to hide old appointments or automatic formatting rules
|||||| that mark items dated before today with a gray font.
||||||
|||||| outlook does highlight today a little around the date.
||||||
||||||
||||||
|||||| --
|||||| Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
|||||| Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
|||||| Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
|||||| Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)
||||||
||||||
||||||
|||||| Join OneNote Tips mailing list: http://www.onenote-tips.net/
||||||
||||||
|||||| ||||||| I would like to do the same. There are several posts here that
||||||| area all asking for the same thing in one way or another
||||||| (another post wanted to "deemphasize" days in the past. What
||||||| we want is for past days (and even the
||||||| current day) to be highlighted in such a way that one can tell
||||||| at a glance where you are in the week or month!
|||||||
||||||| "Tate Decker" wrote:
|||||||
|||||||| I want to mark off the days as they go by, like everyone does
|||||||| on their paper
|||||||| calenders, so I know what day it is when I look quickly. Does
|||||||| anyone have
|||||||| any suggestions on how to do this? Thanks.

 

[Guest]

Hi, I too want to do what this post is trying to achieve, and I am half way
there. I can make it so that the current day/week is on the top of my
monthly calendar, as per this post (Outlook 2007), but every time I go to
some other part of Outlook, and then return to my Calendar, it defaults to
the old view with the current day/week at the bottom.

Is there any way to save a current view. So that all the settings will
return next time I come back to the calendar.

I've tried the customise current view page, but it doesnt load the settings
from the current view, and I dont really know which settings to change to
make it identical to my "live" current view.

Mike in Sydney.

Enable the Advanced Toolbar, then use the dropdown to change to daily view. With the Date Navigator displayed click on the current day and using the Shift button, click on the day 30 or 31 days out. Release your mouse and you should have a current month view that will advance with the dates rather than display the current month. Your week should always be on top.

--Â
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, edonovan52 asked:

| Thanks for your help.
|
| However, can you give me some steps on how to "change to the daily
| view and then swipe an entire month from the data navigator" ???
|
| Thanks,
| Evan
|
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| I presume you are talking about the month view? If yes, you asked
|| for a month view and that is what you are seeing, the entire current
|| month.
||
|| If you want a month ahead view, change to the daily view and then
|| swipe an entire month from the data navigator. This method will
|| always keep the current week at the top.
||
|| --ÂÂ
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, edonovan52 asked:
||
||| My question is similar but a tad different.
|||
||| The default Calendar view in Outlook shows you the current week at
||| the very bottom, looking back at the past 4 weeks.
|||
||| Obviously the appointments and meetings in the future are more
||| important. How do I change it so I'm seeing maybe, only 1 week in
||| the past at the top and the coming weeks at the bottom?
|||
||| Thanks,
||| Evan
|||
||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|||
|||| We all know folks in Microsoft's Office group as well as Outlook
|||| and believe me, this is far down on the wish list and even further
|||| down on the list of items to program. Foremost right now is
|||| fixing the performance issues with Outlook 2007.
||||
|||| Marking past days with an X is both very hard to do and very
|||| unlikely to be done. If you would really like this feature, then
|||| put in a wish on the Microsoft Office site but don't hold your
|||| breath.
||||
|||| --ÂÂÂ
|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
|||| without reading.
||||
|||| After furious head scratching, BruceM asked:
||||
||||| Diane, I know you can't mark off days. The challenge is to get
||||| someone at Microsoft to see that this is a feature that thousands
||||| of customers would like! There ought to be settings that allow
||||| one a variety of methods for "marking the dates". Know anybody in
||||| Microsofts's office group?
|||||
||||| "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:
|||||
|||||| You can't mark off (or highlight) the entire day - you can use
|||||| filters to hide old appointments or automatic formatting rules
|||||| that mark items dated before today with a gray font.
||||||
|||||| outlook does highlight today a little around the date.
||||||
||||||
||||||
|||||| --
|||||| Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
|||||| Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
|||||| Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
|||||| Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)
||||||
||||||
||||||
|||||| Join OneNote Tips mailing list: http://www.onenote-tips.net/
||||||
||||||
|||||| ||||||| I would like to do the same. There are several posts here that
||||||| area all asking for the same thing in one way or another
||||||| (another post wanted to "deemphasize" days in the past. What
||||||| we want is for past days (and even the
||||||| current day) to be highlighted in such a way that one can tell
||||||| at a glance where you are in the week or month!
|||||||
||||||| "Tate Decker" wrote:
|||||||
|||||||| I want to mark off the days as they go by, like everyone does
|||||||| on their paper
|||||||| calenders, so I know what day it is when I look quickly. Does
|||||||| anyone have
|||||||| any suggestions on how to do this? Thanks.

 

[Phil Seeman]

You could use the free Outlook add-in available at
www.moreproductivenow.com. It allows you to maintain a separate open
calendar window independent of your Outlook view.

Phil Seeman,
More Productive Now!

Hi, I too want to do what this post is trying to achieve, and I am half
way
there. I can make it so that the current day/week is on the top of my
monthly calendar, as per this post (Outlook 2007), but every time I go to
some other part of Outlook, and then return to my Calendar, it defaults to
the old view with the current day/week at the bottom.

Is there any way to save a current view. So that all the settings will
return next time I come back to the calendar.

I've tried the customise current view page, but it doesnt load the
settings
from the current view, and I dont really know which settings to change to
make it identical to my "live" current view.

Mike in Sydney.

Enable the Advanced Toolbar, then use the dropdown to change to daily
view. With the Date Navigator displayed click on the current day and
using the Shift button, click on the day 30 or 31 days out. Release your
mouse and you should have a current month view that will advance with the
dates rather than display the current month. Your week should always be
on top.

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After furious head scratching, edonovan52 asked:

| Thanks for your help.
|
| However, can you give me some steps on how to "change to the daily
| view and then swipe an entire month from the data navigator" ???
|
| Thanks,
| Evan
|
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| I presume you are talking about the month view? If yes, you asked
|| for a month view and that is what you are seeing, the entire current
|| month.
||
|| If you want a month ahead view, change to the daily view and then
|| swipe an entire month from the data navigator. This method will
|| always keep the current week at the top.
||
|| --Â
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, edonovan52 asked:
||
||| My question is similar but a tad different.
|||
||| The default Calendar view in Outlook shows you the current week at
||| the very bottom, looking back at the past 4 weeks.
|||
||| Obviously the appointments and meetings in the future are more
||| important. How do I change it so I'm seeing maybe, only 1 week in
||| the past at the top and the coming weeks at the bottom?
|||
||| Thanks,
||| Evan
|||
||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|||
|||| We all know folks in Microsoft's Office group as well as Outlook
|||| and believe me, this is far down on the wish list and even further
|||| down on the list of items to program. Foremost right now is
|||| fixing the performance issues with Outlook 2007.
||||
|||| Marking past days with an X is both very hard to do and very
|||| unlikely to be done. If you would really like this feature, then
|||| put in a wish on the Microsoft Office site but don't hold your
|||| breath.
||||
|||| --Ã,Â
|||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||||
|||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted
|||| without reading.
||||
|||| After furious head scratching, BruceM asked:
||||
||||| Diane, I know you can't mark off days. The challenge is to get
||||| someone at Microsoft to see that this is a feature that thousands
||||| of customers would like! There ought to be settings that allow
||||| one a variety of methods for "marking the dates". Know anybody in
||||| Microsofts's office group?
|||||
||||| "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:
|||||
|||||| You can't mark off (or highlight) the entire day - you can use
|||||| filters to hide old appointments or automatic formatting rules
|||||| that mark items dated before today with a gray font.
||||||
|||||| outlook does highlight today a little around the date.
||||||
||||||
||||||
|||||| --
|||||| Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
|||||| Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
|||||| Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
|||||| Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)
||||||
||||||
||||||
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||||||
||||||
|||||| ||||||| I would like to do the same. There are several posts here that
||||||| area all asking for the same thing in one way or another
||||||| (another post wanted to "deemphasize" days in the past. What
||||||| we want is for past days (and even the
||||||| current day) to be highlighted in such a way that one can tell
||||||| at a glance where you are in the week or month!
|||||||
||||||| "Tate Decker" wrote:
|||||||
|||||||| I want to mark off the days as they go by, like everyone does
|||||||| on their paper
|||||||| calenders, so I know what day it is when I look quickly. Does
|||||||| anyone have
|||||||| any suggestions on how to do this? Thanks.

 

[rmeronemo]

Almost 5 years after the original post, I still want this functionality.

Thanks for your help.

However, can you give me some steps on how to "change to the daily view and
then swipe an entire month from the data navigator" ???

Thanks,
Evan

I presume you are talking about the month view? If yes, you asked for a month view and that is what you are seeing, the entire current month.

If you want a month ahead view, change to the daily view and then swipe an entire month from the data navigator. This method will always keep the current week at the top.

--Â
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, edonovan52 asked:

| My question is similar but a tad different.
|
| The default Calendar view in Outlook shows you the current week at
| the very bottom, looking back at the past 4 weeks.
|
| Obviously the appointments and meetings in the future are more
| important. How do I change it so I'm seeing maybe, only 1 week in the
| past at the top and the coming weeks at the bottom?
|
| Thanks,
| Evan
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| We all know folks in Microsoft's Office group as well as Outlook and
|| believe me, this is far down on the wish list and even further down
|| on the list of items to program. Foremost right now is fixing the
|| performance issues with Outlook 2007.
||
|| Marking past days with an X is both very hard to do and very
|| unlikely to be done. If you would really like this feature, then
|| put in a wish on the Microsoft Office site but don't hold your
|| breath.
||
|| --ÂÂ
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, BruceM asked:
||
||| Diane, I know you can't mark off days. The challenge is to get
||| someone at Microsoft to see that this is a feature that thousands of
||| customers would like! There ought to be settings that allow one a
||| variety of methods for "marking the dates". Know anybody in
||| Microsofts's office group?
|||
||| "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:
|||
|||| You can't mark off (or highlight) the entire day - you can use
|||| filters to hide old appointments or automatic formatting rules that
|||| mark items dated before today with a gray font.
||||
|||| outlook does highlight today a little around the date.
||||
||||
||||
|||| --
|||| Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
|||| Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
|||| Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
|||| Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)
||||
||||
||||
|||| Join OneNote Tips mailing list: http://www.onenote-tips.net/
||||
||||
|||| ||||| I would like to do the same. There are several posts here that
||||| area all asking for the same thing in one way or another (another
||||| post wanted to "deemphasize" days in the past. What we want is
||||| for past days (and even the
||||| current day) to be highlighted in such a way that one can tell at
||||| a glance where you are in the week or month!
|||||
||||| "Tate Decker" wrote:
|||||
|||||| I want to mark off the days as they go by, like everyone does on
|||||| their paper
|||||| calenders, so I know what day it is when I look quickly. Does
|||||| anyone have
|||||| any suggestions on how to do this? Thanks.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Maybe if you come back in another 5 yrs, you might get your wish, but I'm
pretty sure its not going to make it into the next version.

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Almost 5 years after the original post, I still want this functionality.

Thanks for your help.

However, can you give me some steps on how to "change to the daily view
and
then swipe an entire month from the data navigator" ???

Thanks,
Evan

I presume you are talking about the month view? If yes, you asked for
a month view and that is what you are seeing, the entire current month.

If you want a month ahead view, change to the daily view and then swipe
an entire month from the data navigator. This method will always keep
the current week at the top.

--Â
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, edonovan52 asked:

| My question is similar but a tad different.
|
| The default Calendar view in Outlook shows you the current week at
| the very bottom, looking back at the past 4 weeks.
|
| Obviously the appointments and meetings in the future are more
| important. How do I change it so I'm seeing maybe, only 1 week in the
| past at the top and the coming weeks at the bottom?
|
| Thanks,
| Evan
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| We all know folks in Microsoft's Office group as well as Outlook and
|| believe me, this is far down on the wish list and even further down
|| on the list of items to program. Foremost right now is fixing the
|| performance issues with Outlook 2007.
||
|| Marking past days with an X is both very hard to do and very
|| unlikely to be done. If you would really like this feature, then
|| put in a wish on the Microsoft Office site but don't hold your
|| breath.
||
|| --ÂÂ
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, BruceM asked:
||
||| Diane, I know you can't mark off days. The challenge is to get
||| someone at Microsoft to see that this is a feature that thousands
of
||| customers would like! There ought to be settings that allow one a
||| variety of methods for "marking the dates". Know anybody in
||| Microsofts's office group?
|||
||| "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:
|||
|||| You can't mark off (or highlight) the entire day - you can use
|||| filters to hide old appointments or automatic formatting rules
that
|||| mark items dated before today with a gray font.
||||
|||| outlook does highlight today a little around the date.
||||
||||
||||
|||| --
|||| Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
|||| Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
|||| Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
|||| Author, Google and Other Search Engines (Visual QuickStart Guide)
||||
||||
||||
|||| Join OneNote Tips mailing list: http://www.onenote-tips.net/
||||
||||
|||| ||||| I would like to do the same. There are several posts here that
||||| area all asking for the same thing in one way or another (another
||||| post wanted to "deemphasize" days in the past. What we want is
||||| for past days (and even the
||||| current day) to be highlighted in such a way that one can tell at
||||| a glance where you are in the week or month!
|||||
||||| "Tate Decker" wrote:
|||||
|||||| I want to mark off the days as they go by, like everyone does on
|||||| their paper
|||||| calenders, so I know what day it is when I look quickly. Does
|||||| anyone have
|||||| any suggestions on how to do this? Thanks.