Outlook 2007 (Beta) Weekly Calendar

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

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

Better?


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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

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.

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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.
||
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|| 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.
||||
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|||| "Chris Cakes" Chris wrote in
|||| 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!

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!!!

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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/
||||||
|||||| Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
|||||| Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com
|||||| Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter:
||||||
||||||
||||||
|||||| "Chris Cakes" Chris wrote in
|||||| 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!

"Chris Cakes" wrote:

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