How to have calendar default to current week at top in month view

[Guest]

When the calendar is set to "month" view, how can I have the default view be
the current week at the top? It defaults to the current month regardless of
what week of the month it is.

 

[Brian Tillman]

When the calendar is set to "month" view, how can I have the default
view be the current week at the top? It defaults to the current
month regardless of what week of the month it is.

I don't believe that's possible to change.

 

[Monte Fisher]

Is this fixed in Outlook2007? It's silly to not be able to change this!

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Is this fixed in Outlook2007? It's silly to not be able to change this!

Silly or not, the calendar's monthly view is designed to show the current
month in its entirety.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

The monthly view is set to show the full month such as in a desktop planner.

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After furious head scratching, Monte Fisher asked:

| Is this fixed in Outlook2007? It's silly to not be able to change
| this!
|
| "Brian Tillman" wrote:
|
||
||| When the calendar is set to "month" view, how can I have the default
||| view be the current week at the top? It defaults to the current
||| month regardless of what week of the month it is.
||
|| I don't believe that's possible to change.
|| --
|| Brian Tillman

 

[Monte Fisher]

OK, I now understand the reason it's that way, but that should be the reason
that that's the default -- there's no good reason not to have that changeable
-- it's anachronistic (and therefore silly IMO) to force it to be that way,
immutable, simply because that's what one was stuck with in the ancient days
of paper calendars/planners....

 

[5 Hour Butt]

I have to agree with Monte as the monthly view causes the last week of the
month to not be on the current screen. I don't want to look at the weeks gone
by, I need to look at what is coming. In other programs I have used, ACT for
example, you have the option of anchoring the current week at the top of the
page which is quite useful. Just my 2 cents but I am sure we are not the only
ones that would like that option.

OK, I now understand the reason it's that way, but that should be the reason
that that's the default -- there's no good reason not to have that changeable
-- it's anachronistic (and therefore silly IMO) to force it to be that way,
immutable, simply because that's what one was stuck with in the ancient days
of paper calendars/planners....

The monthly view is set to show the full month such as in a desktop planner.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
ALWAYS post your Outlook version.
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


After furious head scratching, Monte Fisher asked:

| Is this fixed in Outlook2007? It's silly to not be able to change
| this!
|
| "Brian Tillman" wrote:
|
||
||| When the calendar is set to "month" view, how can I have the default
||| view be the current week at the top? It defaults to the current
||| month regardless of what week of the month it is.
||
|| I don't believe that's possible to change.
|| --
|| Brian Tillman

 

[Monte Fisher]

I've told this story to numerous people now, and everyone finds it hysterical
that M$ FORCES Outlook users to view their calendar in just one way, because
they based it on paper calendars and day-timers, what, a decade ago, and
their thinking is still frozen.

And they continue to reduce features -- I just noticed today that Outlook
2007 now FORCES you to use Word as your html email editor, which is just
awful ... sigh........

 

[Bob I]

Word, Outlook? Perhaps you should look in task manager and see if
WinWord.exe starts up when you create an HTML e-mail.

 

[Monte Fisher]

Why, yes it does -- AND it stays running, hidden, even after Outlook is
closed -- 64MB of memory wasted!

Any way to stop that, in Outlook 2007?

 

[Bob I]

That shouldn't happen as Word is not used by Outlook in 2007(was in
2003). Perhaps you have configured Word to edit HTML in Internet
Explorer? Or perhaps its a problem carried over from a Upgrade
installation from 2003. Is that the case in your installation? Is yours
an Upgrade install? And was Word set as the e-mail editor?

 

[Monte Fisher]

Have you checked to see whether Word appears in the task manager when you
edit an email? (For me, it is not there when I open Outlook, only when I
start creating or editing an email -- and as I noted below, it stays there
(hidden) when Outlook is closed.)

It is an upgrade installation, but I've never used Word as my email editor
(not with '03 or '00 or...) -- also, I've configured Windows Explorer to edit
htm/html documents with notepad (which was trivial with XP but is quite a
pain in the <bleep> with Vista...).

 

[Bob I]

Interesting, I can't say whether the issue is Vista, or something else
triggering it, but Word should not be starting. It may be something that
other users can comment on as I don't have Vista and Outlook 2007. But
it certainly doesn't start with Outlook here on XP.