Making Outlook today show all calendars

[Jack]

(not sure where to post this so I'm putting it two forums) Hi I'm currently a CIS major at school and I always have my laptop and my iPhone with me. Due to the my very busy days with school and two jobs and a personal life I started using outlook and my phone syncing together and I have to say for the most part loved it! It's made my life so much easier and most of the things that this setup couldn't due I've found ways around and all in all been very happy. However since I am always in a hurry at I would like to be able to look at one week or day with my task's, apponitments and e-mails all at once. The outlook today is the obvious choice to do this however this screen will only show me the events listed in the default calendar which I ton't put any in there my schdeule is split between 4 calendars and being able to do that helps me a ton and I don't want to have to start using just the default calendar just so I can get everything to showup.

Sorry about the length I talk a lot when I'm frustrated anyway I've spent hours looking on the web for ways to this and only found a way to reprogram the HTML code that makes up the outlook today screen but I just don't have the time to do that right now. Is there a way to make a event that shows up the catagory I want but also gets put in the default calendar? Or is there a quick and simple way to make the today screen show all the calendars which is what I prefer. Sorry for the length I am grateful for any help you can give me..
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[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Outlook today uses the default calendar only. There is not a hack to make it
use other calendar folders.

Why are you using 4 calendar folders instead of categories and one folder?

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[Jack]

Well there is somewhat of a method to the madness, I use toodeldo to sync my todo tasks on my iphone with outlook each task is setup with categories so I can view my homework by class and then there our others for each job, bills, other school things, and then personal. So I spent some time getting the tasks setup to sync and I don't think the category's carry over into the iphone calendars which is why I have separate ones. Honestly though I haven't looked at doing it the way you suggested so I will give that I try.

I must say after all the looking I've done trying find a solution to my problem I'm surprised no one has come up with one since on other sites I've noticed I'm not the only one to complain about this. As I said I did find a way to do it by changing the HTML code it is written in but I looked at the file and changes I would be making I don't have the time to sit and figure it out I already have a load of programing homework to do so I was just looking for a faster way to do it and like I said I'm surprised that no one has come up with anything. Hopefully during winter break I will find time to do it but I might be to busy working to save up for next semester (although I don't know if you can call it work I get paid to ski all day ) If I do come up with a template or something I will post it. Thanks for your advice Diane I will see if I can do some re-arranging of my setup to see if I can figure something out.

Jack

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

I'm not sure what the iphone includes in the sync, so its possible you might
need the extra calendars unless you find another way to manage the
appointments. (Maybe append a code like P: for personal, S: for school etc
to the appointment subject?)

As for the ability to customize Outlook Today - a few tried but unless the
resulting HTML is compiled into a .DLL it's very slow and features may be
affected by security features. Outlook Today never really caught on and is
being depreciated. I'm not sure how much longer it will remain in outlook,
but it is still in Outlook 2010.

I believe one reason many tried it but few kept using it was because, at the
time of its initial release, computing power was low and it gave the
appearance of being slow. Very slow. This lead people to not use it and
microsoft to not put more resources into the feature, since few were using
it. People did want a 'dashboard' though and MS responded with the To-Do
bar in Outlook 2007. Unfortunately, it doesn't show all calendars either.


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