reversed calendars

[Rick]

I have submitted this query to two other Outlook newsgroups, but without any
results. Perhaps I've been asking the wrong people.

Running Office 2007 in XP Pro. Outlook has an added alternate calendar
(Hebrew) enabled. All defaults are US English, including the system GUI. I
have run this configuration before, without the problem described below.
The main calendar pane (week and month) as well as the small calendar at the
top of the left service column have the days listed from right to left: S F
T W T M S. Everything functions correctely, just the calendars are flipped.
I have tried eliminating the Hebrew calendar, but that seems not to correct
the problem, and it was never a source of this problem in previous
installations. I have even changed the geographical location from Israel to
USA. As a matter of fact, I have 2007 running inVista on my laptop, and the
calendars display correctly.

Advice will be greatly appreciated.

Rick

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

I have submitted this query to two other Outlook newsgroups, but without
any
results. Perhaps I've been asking the wrong people.

Those of us who read one Outlook newsgroup tend to read them all. If you
must ask in multiple newsgroups, please crossport, don't multipost.

 

[Rick]

Those of us who read one Outlook newsgroup tend to read them all. If you
must ask in multiple newsgroups, please crossport, don't multipost.

Then I guess you can understand my frustration. Now, instead of criticising
the posting, how about relating to the question?

Thanks in advance, Rick

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Then I guess you can understand my frustration. Now, instead of
criticising the posting, how about relating to the question?

Hey, if someone knew the answer off the top of his or her head, s/he would
have answered already, I suspect.

 

[Rick]

Hey, if someone knew the answer off the top of his or her head, s/he would
have answered already, I suspect.

Well, yes. I suppose that's a logical assumption. But it's also a logical
assumption that one might expect an answer from all the Microsoft Most
Valuable Professionals in the group. I've been working with Windows since
3.0 and with DOS before that, but I'm no Pro, and I haven't a clue where to
look to change the calendar direction. I suppose it's somewhere in the
defining files of Outlook or maybe in the registry. But where and how?

Rick

 

[Beth]

Well since I only read this group I will answer here.

I have only seen this once before on a machine with a Chinese add on
installed so I am not sure if this will help but it is something to try. So
far all problems I have encountered in outlook have been profile related and
the only way to fix a profile is to make a new one.

Go into the control panel into mail settings and create a new profile put in
all your email information and don't forget to check "prompt for which
profile to use" then login using you new profile if that works then go delete
the old profile.

It is something to try.

Beth

 

[Rick]

Well since I only read this group I will answer here.

I have only seen this once before on a machine with a Chinese add on
installed so I am not sure if this will help but it is something to try.
So
far all problems I have encountered in outlook have been profile related
and
the only way to fix a profile is to make a new one.

Go into the control panel into mail settings and create a new profile put
in
all your email information and don't forget to check "prompt for which
profile to use" then login using you new profile if that works then go
delete
the old profile.

It is something to try.

Beth

Thanks for the suggestion. I created a new profile, but I did it by copying
the old one. The result, of course, was that I replicated the problem. I
suppose the problem is, as you suggested, in the profile. How may I put in
all the email information without copying the profile?Alternately, how may I
edit the profile?

Rick

 

[Rick]

Thanks for the suggestion. I created a new profile, but I did it by
copying the old one. The result, of course, was that I replicated the
problem. I suppose the problem is, as you suggested, in the profile. How
may I put in all the email information without copying the
profile?Alternately, how may I edit the profile?

Rick

OK. I just created a new profile. All clean and empty except for the single
account I inserted to get it started. The calendars are still reversed.
Maybe I should be editing the outlook.pst file. How best to do that, and
what should I be looking for? Perhaps this is a registry problem?

Rick

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

No, editing the pst won't help. You have a right to left language and/or
country selected. Check Outlook's tools, options, right to left tab. if you
have two languages for the calendar names, tools, options, calendar
options - show alternate calendar option.

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[Rick]

That did it. Thank you so much. The "right to left" option was ticked off. I
changed the option to "left to right". Now (I am forced to ask myself ) why
didn't I see that myself?
Rick

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Like so much in Outlook, it's surprisingly easy to miss.

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