Highlight or shade weekend days

[JGreg7]

When using Outlook 2007 (Windows XP) Calendar with the month view, the 2003
version combined Saturday and Sunday into a single day block. After reading
many of the postings, it is apparent that this feature has been omitted from
Outlook 2007.

As an alternative, is there a way to differentiate the weekend days from the
weekdays with some type of shading, or pattern, or something just to make
them appear different from weekend days?

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]]

When using Outlook 2007 (Windows XP) Calendar with the month view, the 2003
version combined Saturday and Sunday into a single day block. After reading
many of the postings, it is apparent that this feature has been omitted from
Outlook 2007.

As an alternative, is there a way to differentiate the weekend days from the
weekdays with some type of shading, or pattern, or something just to make
them appear different from weekend days?

Assign all-day events to them and color-categorize the events.

 

[JGreg7]

Thank you for your suggestion.

I considered the all-day event idea, however I try to avoid "all-day" events
since they tend to turn into multi-day events when daylight savings time
occurs, or when I travel and the time zone is changed. (That is an issue I
have been fighting with Outlook for the last three versions...it has
improved, but never been really fixed).

Since outlook has settings to designate work week, I would assume there
would be some way to show this on the calendar in the same manner as the
"work hours" are shown on the day view. (There should be a setting or option
to shade weekend days, or shade workdays.)

I would hope the folks at Microsoft are familiar with weekends....

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]]

I considered the all-day event idea, however I try to avoid "all-day" events
since they tend to turn into multi-day events when daylight savings time
occurs, or when I travel and the time zone is changed. (That is an issue I
have been fighting with Outlook for the last three versions...it has
improved, but never been really fixed).

I never had never had that problem because I applied the TZ patches when the
DST settings changed. All of my all-day events have worked exactly as they
should. Outlook 2010 should help a lot because you can pin all-day events to
a date in a time zone-independent fashion.

Since outlook has settings to designate work week, I would assume there
would be some way to show this on the calendar in the same manner as the
"work hours" are shown on the day view. (There should be a setting or
option
to shade weekend days, or shade workdays.)

Whether or not there "should" be a setting, there isn't one.

 

[Diane Poremsky]

Thank you for your suggestion.

I considered the all-day event idea, however I try to avoid "all-day"
events
since they tend to turn into multi-day events when daylight savings
time
occurs, or when I travel and the time zone is changed. (That is an
issue I
have been fighting with Outlook for the last three versions...it has
improved, but never been really fixed).

Since outlook has settings to designate work week, I would assume
there
would be some way to show this on the calendar in the same manner as
the
"work hours" are shown on the day view. (There should be a setting or
option
to shade weekend days, or shade workdays.)

I would hope the folks at Microsoft are familiar with weekends....

You can't highlight non-working days in the month view but they will be
shaded in the week view. You can set the week to begin on monday so Sat
and Sun are grouped at the end of the month as they were in older
versions.


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[JGreg7]

I applied the TZ patches and DST patches as well, however when I upgraded
(Well, let's say changed to...) to Office 2007, the date mis-mash happened
all over again. Even with a few new twists I had not expected.

It is all fixed now, but after the last round, I do not trust it. I have
gone back to a paper calendar for important items.

Let's hope that one day Microsoft actually looks at these newsgroups to see
what some of the issues are...

 

[JGreg7]

Thank you for your post. I had not noticed the shading in the week view,
since I never really use the week view (most of my scheduleing is over a
month or two).

The weekend shading is exactly what I would like to see for the month view.
Why do you suppose that Microsft saw fit to higlight working hours in the day
view, and weekends in the week view, and neglected to allow that in the month
view?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

If I knew the answer to that, I'd be rich. It makes no sense to me and
you aren't the first to ask for shaded weekends / non-working days in month
view.

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[Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]]

I applied the TZ patches and DST patches as well, however when I upgraded
(Well, let's say changed to...) to Office 2007, the date mis-mash happened
all over again. Even with a few new twists I had not expected.

It is all fixed now, but after the last round, I do not trust it. I have
gone back to a paper calendar for important items.

I've upgraded from Outlook 2003 to 2007 and now 2010 and not once did my event
dates display improperly at the time of DST change. I wish I could tell you
what to examine.

Let's hope that one day Microsoft actually looks at these newsgroups to see
what some of the issues are...

These newsgroups have never been official support channels and Microsoft has
decided to close them all down come June. They want to use
http://answers.microsoft.com/ instead.