Change default appointment start and end times from 30 min to 10 m

[Guest]

I schedule my appointments in 10 minute blocks. Is there a way to change the
default 30 minute interval start and end times to 10 minutes. I know I can
enter anytime I want manually but it would be a lot easier to select 10
minute intervals from the drop down menu.

 

[Guest]

If you change the time scale on the Day view of the calendar to 10-minute
increments, your new appointments will default to 10 minute lengths also.
Right-click the time scale to change the value.

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[Guest]

Your solution partially solved my problem. Let's make sure we are using the
same version, 2002. Your instructions did change the intervals in the "Day"
view. I still have the 30 minute default when I open an appointment window
by double clicking on a day in the monthly calendar. I right clicked on a
day of a month and selected
"other settings". The "time scale" shows 10 minutes. I have restarted
outlook. Still no change.

 

[Guest]

I use Outlook 2003 and don't have a copy of Outlook 2002 to test with, but I
will see if I can find someone else to test it for you. Keep an eye on this
thread.

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Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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[Guest]

Thank you, Do you know how to make the changes in 2003? It may be a similar
method.

 

[Guest]

OK, it's been confirmed that in both Outlook 2002 and 2003, the default
interval for a new appointment is always 30 minutes. Apparently this can't
be changed...sorry....

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Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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[Guest]

Sorry, in the last reply I mean to say "...the default interval for a new
appointment *in Month view* is always 30 minutes."

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Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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[Guest]

Thanks again. Are you familiar with designing forms? Do you think it is
possible to change the default in the form design feature of outlook?

 

[Guest]

Well, ordinarily I'd send you to www.outlookcode.com which has lots of
information on designing custom forms...but considering that the owner of
that website, my fellow Outlook MVP Sue Mosher, was one of the people who
told me that she didn't think it was possible to do what you are asking, I'd
have to say it's not likely. Sorry...

--
Jocelyn Fiorello
MVP - Outlook

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[Guest]

Thanks for all of your assistance. I guess I will just have to make my
appointments in the "Day" view.

 

[Guest]

I also set Outlook 2003 Calendar to "day" view and set the time scale to 10
minutes. I tried the 15 minute time scale as well. My new appointments
still default to a 30 minute time scale, no matter what time scale I have set
the main calendar to.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Did you close and restart Outlook?

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After furious head scratching, Kingstonsean asked:

| I also set Outlook 2003 Calendar to "day" view and set the time scale
| to 10 minutes. I tried the 15 minute time scale as well. My new
| appointments still default to a 30 minute time scale, no matter what
| time scale I have set the main calendar to.
|
| "pinetreecc" wrote:
|
|| Thanks for all of your assistance. I guess I will just have to make
|| my appointments in the "Day" view.
||
|| "Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
||
||| Well, ordinarily I'd send you to www.outlookcode.com which has lots
||| of information on designing custom forms...but considering that the
||| owner of that website, my fellow Outlook MVP Sue Mosher, was one of
||| the people who told me that she didn't think it was possible to do
||| what you are asking, I'd have to say it's not likely. Sorry...
|||
||| --
||| Jocelyn Fiorello
||| MVP - Outlook
|||
||| *** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered --
||| please reply only to the newsgroup to preserve the message thread.
||| ***
|||
|||
||| "pinetreecc" wrote:
|||
|||| Thanks again. Are you familiar with designing forms? Do you
|||| think it is possible to change the default in the form design
|||| feature of outlook?
||||
|||| "Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
||||
||||| Sorry, in the last reply I mean to say "...the default interval
||||| for a new appointment *in Month view* is always 30 minutes."
|||||
||||| --
||||| Jocelyn Fiorello
||||| MVP - Outlook
|||||
||||| *** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered --
||||| please reply only to the newsgroup to preserve the message
||||| thread. ***
|||||
|||||
||||| "Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|||||
|||||| OK, it's been confirmed that in both Outlook 2002 and 2003, the
|||||| default interval for a new appointment is always 30 minutes.
|||||| Apparently this can't be changed...sorry....
||||||
|||||| --
|||||| Jocelyn Fiorello
|||||| MVP - Outlook
||||||
|||||| *** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered --
|||||| please reply only to the newsgroup to preserve the message
|||||| thread. ***
||||||
||||||
|||||| "pinetreecc" wrote:
||||||
||||||| Thank you, Do you know how to make the changes in 2003? It
||||||| may be a similar method.
|||||||
||||||| "Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|||||||
|||||||| I use Outlook 2003 and don't have a copy of Outlook 2002 to
|||||||| test with, but I will see if I can find someone else to test
|||||||| it for you. Keep an eye on this thread.
||||||||
|||||||| --
|||||||| Jocelyn Fiorello
|||||||| MVP - Outlook
||||||||
|||||||| *** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered --
|||||||| please reply only to the newsgroup to preserve the message
|||||||| thread. ***
||||||||
||||||||
|||||||| "pinetreecc" wrote:
||||||||
||||||||| Your solution partially solved my problem. Let's make sure
||||||||| we are using the same version, 2002. Your instructions did
||||||||| change the intervals in the "Day" view. I still have the 30
||||||||| minute default when I open an appointment window by double
||||||||| clicking on a day in the monthly calendar. I right clicked
||||||||| on a day of a month and selected "other settings". The "time
||||||||| scale" shows 10 minutes. I have restarted outlook. Still no
||||||||| change.
|||||||||
|||||||||
||||||||| "Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|||||||||
|||||||||| If you change the time scale on the Day view of the calendar
|||||||||| to 10-minute increments, your new appointments will default
|||||||||| to 10 minute lengths also. Right-click the time scale to
|||||||||| change the value.
||||||||||
|||||||||| --
|||||||||| Jocelyn Fiorello
|||||||||| MVP - Outlook
||||||||||
|||||||||| *** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered
|||||||||| -- please reply only to the newsgroup to preserve the
|||||||||| message thread. ***
||||||||||
||||||||||
|||||||||| "pinetreecc" wrote:
||||||||||
||||||||||| I schedule my appointments in 10 minute blocks. Is there a
||||||||||| way to change the default 30 minute interval start and end
||||||||||| times to 10 minutes. I know I can enter anytime I want
||||||||||| manually but it would be a lot easier to select 10 minute
||||||||||| intervals from the drop down menu.

 

[Guest]

Yes, several times. And because of persistent reminder problems, I've also
restarted using the "cleanreminders" and "restefolders" switches. New
appointments still default to 1/2 hour increments.

Did you close and restart Outlook?

--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 furious head scratching, Kingstonsean asked:

| I also set Outlook 2003 Calendar to "day" view and set the time scale
| to 10 minutes. I tried the 15 minute time scale as well. My new
| appointments still default to a 30 minute time scale, no matter what
| time scale I have set the main calendar to.
|
| "pinetreecc" wrote:
|
|| Thanks for all of your assistance. I guess I will just have to make
|| my appointments in the "Day" view.
||
|| "Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
||
||| Well, ordinarily I'd send you to www.outlookcode.com which has lots
||| of information on designing custom forms...but considering that the
||| owner of that website, my fellow Outlook MVP Sue Mosher, was one of
||| the people who told me that she didn't think it was possible to do
||| what you are asking, I'd have to say it's not likely. Sorry...
|||
||| --
||| Jocelyn Fiorello
||| MVP - Outlook
|||
||| *** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered --
||| please reply only to the newsgroup to preserve the message thread.
||| ***
|||
|||
||| "pinetreecc" wrote:
|||
|||| Thanks again. Are you familiar with designing forms? Do you
|||| think it is possible to change the default in the form design
|||| feature of outlook?
||||
|||| "Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
||||
||||| Sorry, in the last reply I mean to say "...the default interval
||||| for a new appointment *in Month view* is always 30 minutes."
|||||
||||| --
||||| Jocelyn Fiorello
||||| MVP - Outlook
|||||
||||| *** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered --
||||| please reply only to the newsgroup to preserve the message
||||| thread. ***
|||||
|||||
||||| "Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|||||
|||||| OK, it's been confirmed that in both Outlook 2002 and 2003, the
|||||| default interval for a new appointment is always 30 minutes.
|||||| Apparently this can't be changed...sorry....
||||||
|||||| --
|||||| Jocelyn Fiorello
|||||| MVP - Outlook
||||||
|||||| *** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered --
|||||| please reply only to the newsgroup to preserve the message
|||||| thread. ***
||||||
||||||
|||||| "pinetreecc" wrote:
||||||
||||||| Thank you, Do you know how to make the changes in 2003? It
||||||| may be a similar method.
|||||||
||||||| "Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|||||||
|||||||| I use Outlook 2003 and don't have a copy of Outlook 2002 to
|||||||| test with, but I will see if I can find someone else to test
|||||||| it for you. Keep an eye on this thread.
||||||||
|||||||| --
|||||||| Jocelyn Fiorello
|||||||| MVP - Outlook
||||||||
|||||||| *** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered --
|||||||| please reply only to the newsgroup to preserve the message
|||||||| thread. ***
||||||||
||||||||
|||||||| "pinetreecc" wrote:
||||||||
||||||||| Your solution partially solved my problem. Let's make sure
||||||||| we are using the same version, 2002. Your instructions did
||||||||| change the intervals in the "Day" view. I still have the 30
||||||||| minute default when I open an appointment window by double
||||||||| clicking on a day in the monthly calendar. I right clicked
||||||||| on a day of a month and selected "other settings". The "time
||||||||| scale" shows 10 minutes. I have restarted outlook. Still no
||||||||| change.
|||||||||
|||||||||
||||||||| "Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|||||||||
|||||||||| If you change the time scale on the Day view of the calendar
|||||||||| to 10-minute increments, your new appointments will default
|||||||||| to 10 minute lengths also. Right-click the time scale to
|||||||||| change the value.
||||||||||
|||||||||| --
|||||||||| Jocelyn Fiorello
|||||||||| MVP - Outlook
||||||||||
|||||||||| *** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered
|||||||||| -- please reply only to the newsgroup to preserve the
|||||||||| message thread. ***
||||||||||
||||||||||
|||||||||| "pinetreecc" wrote:
||||||||||
||||||||||| I schedule my appointments in 10 minute blocks. Is there a
||||||||||| way to change the default 30 minute interval start and end
||||||||||| times to 10 minutes. I know I can enter anytime I want
||||||||||| manually but it would be a lot easier to select 10 minute
||||||||||| intervals from the drop down menu.

 

[Guest]

It seems the only way to make the time interval change is to change the code.
Does anyone know which department at Microsoft would handle suggestions from
consumers?

Yes, several times. And because of persistent reminder problems, I've also
restarted using the "cleanreminders" and "restefolders" switches. New
appointments still default to 1/2 hour increments.

Did you close and restart Outlook?

--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 furious head scratching, Kingstonsean asked:

| I also set Outlook 2003 Calendar to "day" view and set the time scale
| to 10 minutes. I tried the 15 minute time scale as well. My new
| appointments still default to a 30 minute time scale, no matter what
| time scale I have set the main calendar to.
|
| "pinetreecc" wrote:
|
|| Thanks for all of your assistance. I guess I will just have to make
|| my appointments in the "Day" view.
||
|| "Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
||
||| Well, ordinarily I'd send you to www.outlookcode.com which has lots
||| of information on designing custom forms...but considering that the
||| owner of that website, my fellow Outlook MVP Sue Mosher, was one of
||| the people who told me that she didn't think it was possible to do
||| what you are asking, I'd have to say it's not likely. Sorry...
|||
||| --
||| Jocelyn Fiorello
||| MVP - Outlook
|||
||| *** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered --
||| please reply only to the newsgroup to preserve the message thread.
||| ***
|||
|||
||| "pinetreecc" wrote:
|||
|||| Thanks again. Are you familiar with designing forms? Do you
|||| think it is possible to change the default in the form design
|||| feature of outlook?
||||
|||| "Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
||||
||||| Sorry, in the last reply I mean to say "...the default interval
||||| for a new appointment *in Month view* is always 30 minutes."
|||||
||||| --
||||| Jocelyn Fiorello
||||| MVP - Outlook
|||||
||||| *** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered --
||||| please reply only to the newsgroup to preserve the message
||||| thread. ***
|||||
|||||
||||| "Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|||||
|||||| OK, it's been confirmed that in both Outlook 2002 and 2003, the
|||||| default interval for a new appointment is always 30 minutes.
|||||| Apparently this can't be changed...sorry....
||||||
|||||| --
|||||| Jocelyn Fiorello
|||||| MVP - Outlook
||||||
|||||| *** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered --
|||||| please reply only to the newsgroup to preserve the message
|||||| thread. ***
||||||
||||||
|||||| "pinetreecc" wrote:
||||||
||||||| Thank you, Do you know how to make the changes in 2003? It
||||||| may be a similar method.
|||||||
||||||| "Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|||||||
|||||||| I use Outlook 2003 and don't have a copy of Outlook 2002 to
|||||||| test with, but I will see if I can find someone else to test
|||||||| it for you. Keep an eye on this thread.
||||||||
|||||||| --
|||||||| Jocelyn Fiorello
|||||||| MVP - Outlook
||||||||
|||||||| *** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered --
|||||||| please reply only to the newsgroup to preserve the message
|||||||| thread. ***
||||||||
||||||||
|||||||| "pinetreecc" wrote:
||||||||
||||||||| Your solution partially solved my problem. Let's make sure
||||||||| we are using the same version, 2002. Your instructions did
||||||||| change the intervals in the "Day" view. I still have the 30
||||||||| minute default when I open an appointment window by double
||||||||| clicking on a day in the monthly calendar. I right clicked
||||||||| on a day of a month and selected "other settings". The "time
||||||||| scale" shows 10 minutes. I have restarted outlook. Still no
||||||||| change.
|||||||||
|||||||||
||||||||| "Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|||||||||
|||||||||| If you change the time scale on the Day view of the calendar
|||||||||| to 10-minute increments, your new appointments will default
|||||||||| to 10 minute lengths also. Right-click the time scale to
|||||||||| change the value.
||||||||||
|||||||||| --
|||||||||| Jocelyn Fiorello
|||||||||| MVP - Outlook
||||||||||
|||||||||| *** Messages sent to my e-mail address will NOT be answered
|||||||||| -- please reply only to the newsgroup to preserve the
|||||||||| message thread. ***
||||||||||
||||||||||
|||||||||| "pinetreecc" wrote:
||||||||||
||||||||||| I schedule my appointments in 10 minute blocks. Is there a
||||||||||| way to change the default 30 minute interval start and end
||||||||||| times to 10 minutes. I know I can enter anytime I want
||||||||||| manually but it would be a lot easier to select 10 minute
||||||||||| intervals from the drop down menu.

 

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