How do I change the default duration of an appointment

[Jacob Havkrog]

Hi group

How do I change the default duration of appointments in Outlook (2003 SP2) ?
It is 30 minutes, and I'd like it to be 45 minutes.

Also, when dragging appointmens in the calendar from one time to another,
the time is changed by steps of 30 minutes. I'd like to change that to 15
minutes.


Thanks
Jacob

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

Normally you change the default size of an appointment by changing the size
of the divisions in a day but 45 minutes isn't one of the choices since you
can't divide an hour into 45 minute chunks

 

[Brian Tillman]

How do I change the default duration of appointments in Outlook (2003
SP2) ? It is 30 minutes, and I'd like it to be 45 minutes.

Not possible.

Also, when dragging appointmens in the calendar from one time to
another, the time is changed by steps of 30 minutes. I'd like to
change that to 15 minutes.

RIght-click an empty area of the calendar, choose "Other Settings" and
change the "Time scale" drop-down to "15 minutes". This will also assist
you in your first goal in that, when viewing the Day view, you'll be able to
preselect a 45 minute slot and then when you click New>Appointment (or
Meeting Request), the default start and end times will correspond to the
selection you made.

 

[RoninV]

There were a number of threads regarding this same 'change default duration'
issue, but my question is the reverse. When an attempt is made to schedule an
event that last more than 30 minutes, it will save the event as a 30 minute
event instead of what was originally inputted.

 

[Brian Tillman]

There were a number of threads regarding this same 'change default
duration' issue, but my question is the reverse. When an attempt is
made to schedule an event that last more than 30 minutes, it will
save the event as a 30 minute event instead of what was originally
inputted.

Have you tried preselecting the range on the day view before clicking New?