Outlook 2007 (Beta) Weekly Calendar

[Guest]

What happened to the WEEKLY CALENDAR from OL2003??? Their are 5-7 day
calendars, but no longer can you view a weekly block-style calendar (MTW on
the left side & TFSS on the right side...

Also, printed view of weekly calendar has MWF & Sun in the left column, and
TThSat & Empty Box in right column. At least they have expanded the Sat/Sun
blocks, but went across instead of up and down...

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http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...17b71&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.calendaring

 

[Milly Staples - MVP Outlook]

Gone - this is the new layout.

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After furious head scratching, Chris Cakes asked:

| What happened to the WEEKLY CALENDAR from OL2003??? Their are 5-7 day
| calendars, but no longer can you view a weekly block-style calendar
| (MTW on the left side & TFSS on the right side...
|
| Also, printed view of weekly calendar has MWF & Sun in the left
| column, and TThSat & Empty Box in right column. At least they have
| expanded the Sat/Sun blocks, but went across instead of up and down...
|
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| This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
| suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click
| the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the
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|
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...17b71&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.calendaring

 

[Guest]

Why change a good thing??? For 5+ years the weekly calendar has been in a
"standard" format... Now they decide to change it 180 degrees??? I'm sure
I'm not going to be the only person to notice this significant change...
THANKS!

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

you aren't, but it wasn't workable with the overlay.

 

[Guest]

What does it matter to the programmers if the days of the week go up and down
or side to side??? However to a user who goes back to Ofice 95 and MS Mail,
it makes a huge difference... The same goes for the 5 & 7-day calendars...
As a fail-safe "paper backup" I use the printed version of the WEEKLY
calendar that virtually matches the screen version...

Now the printed version has been modified and the screen version has been
removed completely??? As a COMPUTER SCIENCE Major in College, I don't buy
into the "wasn't workable with the overlay" answer from below... Put it back
the way it was!

THANKS!

 

[Milly Staples - MVP Outlook]

Not going to happen - Outlook is the only PIM that Microsoft programs that
had the 7 day view in 2 columns. Entourage, Windows Mail, Works Calendar,
all have the columnar display. Besides not being compatible with the
overlay of different calendars, it was just a sore thumb red-headed
stepchild.

In other words, it will not change.

--
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, Chris Cakes asked:

| What does it matter to the programmers if the days of the week go up
| and down or side to side??? However to a user who goes back to Ofice
| 95 and MS Mail, it makes a huge difference... The same goes for the
| 5 & 7-day calendars... As a fail-safe "paper backup" I use the
| printed version of the WEEKLY calendar that virtually matches the
| screen version...
|
| Now the printed version has been modified and the screen version has
| been removed completely??? As a COMPUTER SCIENCE Major in College, I
| don't buy into the "wasn't workable with the overlay" answer from
| below... Put it back the way it was!
|
| THANKS!
|
| "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:
|
|| you aren't, but it wasn't workable with the overlay.
||
|| --
|| Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
|| Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
|| Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
|| Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/
|| Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/
||
||
||
|| Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter:
|| (e-mail address removed)
||
||
|| message ||| Why change a good thing??? For 5+ years the weekly calendar has
||| been in a "standard" format... Now they decide to change it 180
||| degrees??? I'm sure
||| I'm not going to be the only person to notice this significant
||| change... THANKS!

 

[Guest]

So what calendar view do you use if you have several events on the same day
that all start at about the same time??? This red-headed stepchild version
is the only one that actually displays all the information, instead of
truncating it just to fit the space the programmers set aside... To be
honest, I have never used anything else for scheduling multiple daily
events... And having multimple calendars is not an option...

THANKS!

 

[Milly Staples - MVP Outlook]

I seldom have events that start at the same time. I either decline the
conflicting appointments or set them as tentative and clean it up the day
before the appointments.

--
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, Chris Cakes asked:

| So what calendar view do you use if you have several events on the
| same day that all start at about the same time??? This red-headed
| stepchild version is the only one that actually displays all the
| information, instead of truncating it just to fit the space the
| programmers set aside... To be honest, I have never used anything
| else for scheduling multiple daily events... And having multimple
| calendars is not an option...
|
| THANKS!
|
| "Milly Staples - MVP Outlook" wrote:
|
|| Not going to happen - Outlook is the only PIM that Microsoft
|| programs that had the 7 day view in 2 columns. Entourage, Windows
|| Mail, Works Calendar, all have the columnar display. Besides not
|| being compatible with the overlay of different calendars, it was
|| just a sore thumb red-headed stepchild.
||
|| In other words, it will not change.
||
|| --
|| 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, Chris Cakes asked:
||
||| What does it matter to the programmers if the days of the week go up
||| and down or side to side??? However to a user who goes back to
||| Ofice 95 and MS Mail, it makes a huge difference... The same goes
||| for the 5 & 7-day calendars... As a fail-safe "paper backup" I use
||| the printed version of the WEEKLY calendar that virtually matches
||| the screen version...
|||
||| Now the printed version has been modified and the screen version has
||| been removed completely??? As a COMPUTER SCIENCE Major in College,
||| I don't buy into the "wasn't workable with the overlay" answer from
||| below... Put it back the way it was!
|||
||| THANKS!
|||
||| "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:
|||
|||| you aren't, but it wasn't workable with the overlay.
||||
|||| --
|||| Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
|||| Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
|||| Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
|||| Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/
|||| Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/
||||
||||
||||
|||| Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter:
|||| (e-mail address removed)
||||
||||
|||| message ||||| Why change a good thing??? For 5+ years the weekly calendar has
||||| been in a "standard" format... Now they decide to change it 180
||||| degrees??? I'm sure
||||| I'm not going to be the only person to notice this significant
||||| change... THANKS!

 

[Guest]

We use OUTLOOK as an evet scheduling calendar for a breakfast catering
business... Can't "decline" a paying event, just because our calendar
doesn't have the flexibility to accept multiple events at the same start
time... The "block style" calendar is the only format that gives us
something readable and useable for what we want...

I seldom have events that start at the same time. I either decline the
conflicting appointments or set them as tentative and clean it up the day
before the appointments.

--
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, Chris Cakes asked:

| So what calendar view do you use if you have several events on the
| same day that all start at about the same time??? This red-headed
| stepchild version is the only one that actually displays all the
| information, instead of truncating it just to fit the space the
| programmers set aside... To be honest, I have never used anything
| else for scheduling multiple daily events... And having multimple
| calendars is not an option...
|
| THANKS!
|
| "Milly Staples - MVP Outlook" wrote:
|
|| Not going to happen - Outlook is the only PIM that Microsoft
|| programs that had the 7 day view in 2 columns. Entourage, Windows
|| Mail, Works Calendar, all have the columnar display. Besides not
|| being compatible with the overlay of different calendars, it was
|| just a sore thumb red-headed stepchild.
||
|| In other words, it will not change.
||
|| --
|| 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, Chris Cakes asked:
||
||| What does it matter to the programmers if the days of the week go up
||| and down or side to side??? However to a user who goes back to
||| Ofice 95 and MS Mail, it makes a huge difference... The same goes
||| for the 5 & 7-day calendars... As a fail-safe "paper backup" I use
||| the printed version of the WEEKLY calendar that virtually matches
||| the screen version...
|||
||| Now the printed version has been modified and the screen version has
||| been removed completely??? As a COMPUTER SCIENCE Major in College,
||| I don't buy into the "wasn't workable with the overlay" answer from
||| below... Put it back the way it was!
|||
||| THANKS!
|||
||| "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:
|||
|||| you aren't, but it wasn't workable with the overlay.
||||
|||| --
|||| Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
|||| Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
|||| Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
|||| Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/
|||| Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/
||||
||||
||||
|||| Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter:
|||| (e-mail address removed)
||||
||||
|||| message ||||| Why change a good thing??? For 5+ years the weekly calendar has
||||| been in a "standard" format... Now they decide to change it 180
||||| degrees??? I'm sure
||||| I'm not going to be the only person to notice this significant
||||| change... THANKS!

 

[Brian Tillman]

We use OUTLOOK as an evet scheduling calendar for a breakfast catering
business... Can't "decline" a paying event, just because our calendar
doesn't have the flexibility to accept multiple events at the same
start time... The "block style" calendar is the only format that
gives us something readable and useable for what we want...

Perhaps you should continue to use the version of Outlook that suits you,
then.

 

[Guest]

I think Chris has some valid points. I personally never liked the block style
calender but prefer the new style for 7 day view.

But, perhaps this should be looked at as a request rather than an
opportunity to lambast someone for not 'changing with the times...'

Also, with all due respect, I don't buy that Milly actually has the
authority to say:

'not going to happen...'

-ck

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Then try this - "Microsoft has informed the beta testers that the look of
Outlook's calendar will not revert to the older style."

Better?


--
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, ck asked:

| I think Chris has some valid points. I personally never liked the
| block style calender but prefer the new style for 7 day view.
|
| But, perhaps this should be looked at as a request rather than an
| opportunity to lambast someone for not 'changing with the times...'
|
| Also, with all due respect, I don't buy that Milly actually has the
| authority to say:
|
| 'not going to happen...'
|
| -ck

 

[Guest]

You seldom have events overlap? I wish I had your schedule!

I seldom have events that start at the same time. I either decline the
conflicting appointments or set them as tentative and clean it up the day
before the appointments.

--
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, Chris Cakes asked:

| So what calendar view do you use if you have several events on the
| same day that all start at about the same time??? This red-headed
| stepchild version is the only one that actually displays all the
| information, instead of truncating it just to fit the space the
| programmers set aside... To be honest, I have never used anything
| else for scheduling multiple daily events... And having multimple
| calendars is not an option...
|
| THANKS!
|
| "Milly Staples - MVP Outlook" wrote:
|
|| Not going to happen - Outlook is the only PIM that Microsoft
|| programs that had the 7 day view in 2 columns. Entourage, Windows
|| Mail, Works Calendar, all have the columnar display. Besides not
|| being compatible with the overlay of different calendars, it was
|| just a sore thumb red-headed stepchild.
||
|| In other words, it will not change.
||
|| --
|| 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, Chris Cakes asked:
||
||| What does it matter to the programmers if the days of the week go up
||| and down or side to side??? However to a user who goes back to
||| Ofice 95 and MS Mail, it makes a huge difference... The same goes
||| for the 5 & 7-day calendars... As a fail-safe "paper backup" I use
||| the printed version of the WEEKLY calendar that virtually matches
||| the screen version...
|||
||| Now the printed version has been modified and the screen version has
||| been removed completely??? As a COMPUTER SCIENCE Major in College,
||| I don't buy into the "wasn't workable with the overlay" answer from
||| below... Put it back the way it was!
|||
||| THANKS!
|||
||| "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:
|||
|||| you aren't, but it wasn't workable with the overlay.
||||
|||| --
|||| Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
|||| Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
|||| Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
|||| Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/
|||| Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/
||||
||||
||||
|||| Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter:
|||| (e-mail address removed)
||||
||||
|||| message ||||| Why change a good thing??? For 5+ years the weekly calendar has
||||| been in a "standard" format... Now they decide to change it 180
||||| degrees??? I'm sure
||||| I'm not going to be the only person to notice this significant
||||| change... THANKS!

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

I am too busy doing actual work to waste time in meetings. I decline a lot of them where I am essentially a "resource" - as in, "Ask Milly, she worked on this 5 years ago!" Pffft!!!

--
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, LJ Marinello asked:

| You seldom have events overlap? I wish I had your schedule!
|
|
| "Milly Staples - MVP Outlook" wrote:
|
|| I seldom have events that start at the same time. I either decline
|| the conflicting appointments or set them as tentative and clean it
|| up the day before the appointments.
||
|| --
|| 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, Chris Cakes asked:
||
||| So what calendar view do you use if you have several events on the
||| same day that all start at about the same time??? This red-headed
||| stepchild version is the only one that actually displays all the
||| information, instead of truncating it just to fit the space the
||| programmers set aside... To be honest, I have never used anything
||| else for scheduling multiple daily events... And having multimple
||| calendars is not an option...
|||
||| THANKS!
|||
||| "Milly Staples - MVP Outlook" wrote:
|||
|||| Not going to happen - Outlook is the only PIM that Microsoft
|||| programs that had the 7 day view in 2 columns. Entourage, Windows
|||| Mail, Works Calendar, all have the columnar display. Besides not
|||| being compatible with the overlay of different calendars, it was
|||| just a sore thumb red-headed stepchild.
||||
|||| In other words, it will not change.
||||
|||| --
|||| 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, Chris Cakes asked:
||||
||||| What does it matter to the programmers if the days of the week go
||||| up and down or side to side??? However to a user who goes back to
||||| Ofice 95 and MS Mail, it makes a huge difference... The same goes
||||| for the 5 & 7-day calendars... As a fail-safe "paper backup" I use
||||| the printed version of the WEEKLY calendar that virtually matches
||||| the screen version...
|||||
||||| Now the printed version has been modified and the screen version
||||| has been removed completely??? As a COMPUTER SCIENCE Major in
||||| College, I don't buy into the "wasn't workable with the overlay"
||||| answer from below... Put it back the way it was!
|||||
||||| THANKS!
|||||
||||| "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:
|||||
|||||| you aren't, but it wasn't workable with the overlay.
||||||
|||||| --
|||||| Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
|||||| Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
|||||| Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
|||||| Need Help with Common Tasks?
|||||| http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/ Outlook 2007:
|||||| http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/
||||||
||||||
||||||
|||||| Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter:
|||||| (e-mail address removed)
||||||
||||||
|||||| message
||||||
||||||| Why change a good thing??? For 5+ years the weekly calendar has
||||||| been in a "standard" format... Now they decide to change it 180
||||||| degrees??? I'm sure
||||||| I'm not going to be the only person to notice this significant
||||||| change... THANKS!

 

[Guest]

What happened to the WEEKLY CALENDAR from OL2003???

Microsoft has taken a wonderful product and made it virtually useless for an
office setting. As an administrative assistant, I have to keep track of
multiple simultaneous meetings. My day often starts at 6 a.m. and goes until
nearly midnight. I need to see my day at a glance. A little arrow at the
bottom of the screen that indicates more appointments off the screen is a
pathetic substitute.

Please put it back! Reverting to Office 2003 is not an option for our office.

Doug McKinney