Changing calendar views snaps to current date

[hominah]

I have created umpteen different calendar views, and I frequently need to
spend time looking at old information in more than one view, back to back,
one at a time, before returning to the present day's information. In the
calendar, I have to select the view first and then use the "Go, Go To Date"
pull down option to get to the past date I want to see in the first of
several views in which I want to see it.

Problem # 1: I select view A, "Go To Date" x/x/xxxx, and get the info I
need. Then I select view B, and Outlook reverts to today's date, so that I am
forced to do the "Go, Go To Date" thing each time, which is supremely
irritating. How do I switch between views while having it stay on the date
with which I am working?

And / Or

Problem # 2: Is there, please oh please, a faster way to navigate to dates
that fall outside of the range of the 3 little months in the navigation pane
than using the "Go, Go To Date" pull down thing? There really should be a box
I can put up there with the other toolbars into which I can type the date I
want to navigate to without using pull down menus.

I'm using Outlook 2007 on a Vista machine.
Thanks!

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Go to date is about the easiest - or you can show more nav calendars (pull
the separator inward) or navigate via the nav calendars (either the <> or
click on the month name and select a different one)

do you need to view the calendar or just make an appointment on a specific
date?

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[hominah]

Ok, dragging the separator inward so that about half of the screen displays
months to choose from is definitely helpful, although I'm going to need a
bigger monitor or better glasses to use that much.

But the thing I'd like to avoid still happens: I drag the separator inwards,
so that I'm looking at 12, 16, 20 months, and I can much more easily navigate
from past date to past date within a given calendar view. But if I want to
look at all of 2006 in calendar view A, and then in calendar view B, once I
change the view to calendar view B, the 12/16/20 months showing snap back to
the current date as the first month showing in the nav pane, and I still have
to scroll backward to 2006, as it were.

I need to be able to look at months in the past in different views one after
the other primarily, not make appointments in past months necessarily.

I'm thinking this is something I'm stuck with unless there's a box somewhere
I can uncheck...?

Thanks, though.

Go to date is about the easiest - or you can show more nav calendars (pull
the separator inward) or navigate via the nav calendars (either the <> or
click on the month name and select a different one)

do you need to view the calendar or just make an appointment on a specific
date?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]





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I have created umpteen different calendar views, and I frequently need to
spend time looking at old information in more than one view, back to back,
one at a time, before returning to the present day's information. In the
calendar, I have to select the view first and then use the "Go, Go To
Date"
pull down option to get to the past date I want to see in the first of
several views in which I want to see it.

Problem # 1: I select view A, "Go To Date" x/x/xxxx, and get the info I
need. Then I select view B, and Outlook reverts to today's date, so that I
am
forced to do the "Go, Go To Date" thing each time, which is supremely
irritating. How do I switch between views while having it stay on the date
with which I am working?

And / Or

Problem # 2: Is there, please oh please, a faster way to navigate to
dates
that fall outside of the range of the 3 little months in the navigation
pane
than using the "Go, Go To Date" pull down thing? There really should be a
box
I can put up there with the other toolbars into which I can type the date
I
want to navigate to without using pull down menus.

I'm using Outlook 2007 on a Vista machine.
Thanks!