Stumbled across this thread trying to answer the same question. While I do think this should eventually be resolved by Microsoft itself, I've invented my own little stopgap solution: create an all-day Recurring Event.
In the Month view, right click on any Saturday or Sunday and select New Recurring Event. In the popup Appointment Recurrence window select the following:
--Duration 1 day
--Weekly recurrence pattern
--Recur every 1 week
--Check off Saturday and Sunday (or whatever your "play days" are)
--Range of recurrence is "no end date."
Click ok, and then you can set up further options. I chose to turn off the reminders and set the "show as" to out of the office. Save & Close, and you're done!
Although not ideal I find this solution does help me visualize my time better. Give it a try.
Tiffany
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13-Dec-09
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There is no change. Weekends are only shaded in week view, not month
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Outlook 2007 Weekend Shading
I need my weekend days shaded in month view like Outlook 2003. I hav
accidentally scheduled Monday appointments on Sunday numerous times because
cannot find this feature. Help!!
What days and hours are selected in tools, options, calendar options?
What days and hours are selected in tools, options, calendar options
Non-working hours are shaded
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I need help with this too. I need to work in month view.
I need help with this too. I need to work in month view. Seems craz
that you would not be able to show weekends in a different shade
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Re: Outlook 2007 Weekend Shading
geekett;72307 Wrote
This is what you should see - white (or light shading for old version
of Outlook) and all non-working hours in color (or darker colors in ol
versions)
http://tinyurl.com/ot94r
There is not another level of shading for weekends, in part becaus
some people work on 'weekends' and Sat/Sun is not a 'weekend' for al
cultures
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I found this "issue" after installing Outlook 2007 a few days ago.
I found this "issue" after installing Outlook 2007 a few days ago. I am i
Month view most of the time. I schedule weekends events all the time, bu
they are always personal events. It would make it much easier to distinguis
weekdays and weekends in Month view if I could shade weekends in the sam
manner you shade working hours on a day view. This was not necessary in 200
(and before) because of compressed weekend views. Now, shading is neede
because the compressed weekend feature is gone. I am fine with it being gone
but again, you need to replace it with shading
So far I have - in using Outlook 2007 for 3 days - I have schedule
appointments on the wrong day 3 times. I might have done that twice in
years of using Outlook 2003. it is simply easier to know what day I a
scheduling an apointment for with visual cues that segragate week days from
weekends.
Please do not suggest I use a different view - I use this view because I
prefer it. I should not have to change views, because of a usability issue.
Let's face it most electronic calendars shade weekend days because it helps
usability. Outlook 2007 should as well.
Thanks.
:
The only behavior that changed was compressed weekends - weekends were
The only behavior that changed was compressed weekends - weekends were not
shaded darker on the month view (the whole calendar was shaded - light for
current month, dark for previous and next).
If the problem is getting used to leading Sunday when you had it at the end
of the week before (thanks to compressed weekends), go to tools, options,
calendar and set the calendar to start on Monday - this will put Sunday at
the end, with Saturday.
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Thanks for your reply, but you missed my point.
Thanks for your reply, but you missed my point. I was saying that with
Outlook 2003, the stacked Saturday/Sunday WAS the visual clue to what day you
are looking at. Now that the weekend days are not stacked, you need a visual
clue to help know what day you are working with. it is a usability issue. My
point was that most other electronic calendars shade weekend days, and it
seems obvious to me that Outlook 2007 should as well. Why fight the obvious?
Chuck
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Outlook colors the bar containing the number of the day for the current date.
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How is it possible that every provided 'solution' to this thread ismissing the
How is it possible that every provided 'solution' to this thread is
missing the point of the question.
Setting your "Calendar Work Week" (Tools->Options->Calendar) to Monday-
Friday makes no distinction at all to weekends when in Month view. The
Week view offers options to "Show work week" and "Show full week" but
these options are mysteriously absent from the Month view.
Regardless of whether you work shifts, weekends or religious holidays,
there ishould be a straightforward way to distinguish between Work and
Play days.
Let's all just put it down to an(other) oversight and hope that is it is
rectified in version next.
If you mean Outlook 2010 to be "the next version", do not hold your breath.
If you mean Outlook 2010 to be "the next version", do not hold your breath.
There is no change. Weekends are only shaded in week view, not month.
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