Windows Calendar (Vista) Needs This

[Guest]

Hi.
It would be very nice if Vista Calendar would display the day of week for
the work week and weekly views. It would make looking at the calendar much
easier to decipher what the days are. ie. is Wednsday the third column of
fourth column. This is the only issue stopping me from using it.

Mike

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[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

Uh, it does that already, click View > Work Week.

 

[Val]

Umm, well, sort of. On mine, Week view gives the days at the tops of the
columns, but no date. Work Week shows dates (in 11/3/2007 format), but not
the day. Gee, why not both in both views?

Another case of ill chosen, and in this case, apparently unchangeable,
default settings that Redmond thinks we all must live with.

Sigh


Uh, it does that already, click View > Work Week.

 

[Andrew McLaren]

Umm, well, sort of. On mine, Week view gives the days at the tops of the
columns, but no date. Work Week shows dates (in 11/3/2007 format), but
not
the day. Gee, why not both in both views?

On my desktop, Work Week view shows the date in whatever format I define for
the "Long Date" format, under Control Panel, Regional and Language Options,
Formats, Customize (sic) this format, Date.

My Long Date Format is defined as the usual global form: dddd, dd MMMM yyyy.
In Calendar, I see "Monday, 05 November 2007".

I suppose if your Long date format was that barbarous American malapropism,
mm/dd/yyyy, then yes: you'd see "11/3/2007"

Likewise, the Week view displays the date in your "Short" data format, as
defined in Windows. If you really want to see the day of week, you can add
this to your short format: ddd dd/mmM/yyyy (but this will change file date
displays etc as well).

Another case of ill chosen, and in this case, apparently unchangeable,
default settings that Redmond thinks we all must live with.

Nevertheless I tend to agree with you, here ...

 

[Chris Game]

It would be very nice if Vista Calendar would display the day of week for
the work week and weekly views.

Dump the Vista Calendar, and any similar thing on the Sidebar.
Install Rainlendar, and a suitable skin - Bimon-L shows a couple of
months at one go, and of course with the ability to enter
appointments!

 

[Val]

Well, it may not be quite as simple as that.

It seems to depend on how wide you have the calendar displayed. If you
don't have it full (wide)screen width, and you have the navigation and
details panes on, there's not enough room for Calendar to show the Long
Format, so it abbreviates to Short. If a view that calls for Short format
is so tight for real estate, it abbreviates to three letter Day.

And for fun, you cannot further shrink the program's window width to if it
would be too small for the abbreviated day/date form.

Why couldn't the day/date field just wrap to a second line? Give the user
the information they asked for, not what BG thinks they need.

Curiouser and curiouser.

Val

Umm, well, sort of. On mine, Week view gives the days at the tops of the
columns, but no date. Work Week shows dates (in 11/3/2007 format), but
not
the day. Gee, why not both in both views?

On my desktop, Work Week view shows the date in whatever format I define for
the "Long Date" format, under Control Panel, Regional and Language Options,
Formats, Customize (sic) this format, Date.

My Long Date Format is defined as the usual global form: dddd, dd MMMM yyyy.
In Calendar, I see "Monday, 05 November 2007".

I suppose if your Long date format was that barbarous American malapropism,
mm/dd/yyyy, then yes: you'd see "11/3/2007"

Likewise, the Week view displays the date in your "Short" data format, as
defined in Windows. If you really want to see the day of week, you can add
this to your short format: ddd dd/mmM/yyyy (but this will change file date
displays etc as well).

Another case of ill chosen, and in this case, apparently unchangeable,
default settings that Redmond thinks we all must live with.

Nevertheless I tend to agree with you, here ...