Check our Outlook Calendar: Frequently Asked Questions page for common questions and their answers.
Limitations
Outlook does not include any kind of year planner beyond what you see in the normal Day/Week/Month view. If you need to print out the full calendar for a year and don't like the way Outlook does it, you might try one of the Word templates listed at Calendar Tools.
You cannot print detailed notes from your appointments on a Day/Week/Month view printout. The Include: Notes area setting in the Page Setup dialog for different print styles refers to a blank area on the printout for handwritten notes. If you want a detailed printout of your appointments with notes, use the Calendar Details print style.
Meetings | Views | Holidays | Sharing | Printing | Other | Add-ins and Utilities | More Information
Meetings
- Autoaccept a Meeting Request using Rules
- Bug: Attendee is now the Meeting Organizer
- Changing the End Date on Recurring Appointments
- Copy: is prefixed to the Subject of a Meeting
- Create a List of Meeting Attendees and Responses
- Don't Send Updates for Outlook Meeting Requests (Bug)
- Forwarding Appointments Bug (Fixed)
- How to print a list of recurring dates using VBA
- How to Show Appointments as "Free" by Default
- How to View the Organizers of Your Appointments
- Keep Canceled Meetings on Outlook's Calendar
- Meeting Organizer's Name Appears in the Subject line
- Meeting Reminders are Set for the Recipient
- Move meetings without losing the ability to "Send Update"
- Resource has declined your meeting because it is recurring
- Scheduling Resources for Outlook
- The Attachment Size Exceeds the Allowable Limit Error
- To Avoid Sending an Extra Meeting Request
- To Cc or Bcc a Meeting Request
- Using Outlook's Autopick Next and Suggested Times
Views
- Display Weekday Names in a Weekly Calendar View
- How to sort the Outlook Calendar by Birthday
- Outlook Request: Calendar Details View
- Show only Birthdays for a Particular Month
- Show Separate Business and Personal Calendars
- The calendar shows the wrong day at the beginning or end of the month
- To Add Color Coding to Calendar items
- To change the hourly interval in Outlook
- Use a macro to open the Calendar to appointment date
Holidays
- Add Holidays to Outlook's Calendar
- Add Holidays to Second Outlook Calendar
- Calendar Date and Other Data Tools
- How to Remove Holidays From the Default Calendar
- Microsoft Outlook Holiday Issues
- Outlook .HOL Error: US Election Day
- Remove the Holiday or Birthday calendar from Outlook.com or Office365
Sharing
- Maintaining a Group Calendar without Exchange Server
- Outlook error: 'error preparing to send sharing message'
- Publishing Calendars on the Internet or an Intranet
- Sharing Outlook Calendar and Contacts
More:
To get quick access to team calendars
Dates
Printing
- Calendar Printing Assistant Shows Duplicate Entries
- Calendar Printing Tools
- Calendars aren’t printing in color
- How to Email Calendar Printing Assistant Calendars
- How to Print a 15 Minute Calendar
- Modify Calendar Printing Assistant Templates
- Monthly Calendar Printing Bug when Starting the Week on Monday
- More CPAO Template Modifications
- Print Monthly or Work Week Calendars
- Printing Calendars with Color Categories
- Printing the Monthly Calendar with Line Wrap & End Times
- Using and Editing the My Outlook Calendar Template
More:
Mail a copy of today's appointments -- VBA code sample
Other Issues
- Clear the Location drop-down list on appointments
- How to Remove or Change the Reminder on All Day Events
- Make "no reminder" the default for new appointments
- Meeting Requests and Appointments are Off by One Hour
- Outlook's Appointments and Time Zones
- Wrong Calendar Name is Displayed in the Title and Taskbar
More:
To automatically set a reminder for birthdays for new contacts (Outlookcode.com VBA code sample)
Add-ins and Utilities
- Calendar Reminder Tools
- Calendar and Meeting Tools
- Calendar Date and Other Data Tools
- Calendar Printing Tools
- Calendar Tools for Outlook
- Combine and Print Multiple Outlook Calendars
- Duplicate Appointment Remover Tools
- Maintaining a Group Calendar without Exchange Server
- Other Group Calendar Tools for Outlook
- Publishing Calendars on the Internet or an Intranet
- Schedule Management Tools for Outlook Calendar
- Time and Billing Tools
How to Show Appointments as "Free" by Default
Do you want most of your new appointments to use Free (or Tentative or Out of Office) as the default for the "Show as time" instead of Busy? Outlook doesn't have an option to set the "Show time as" default but you can create a custom appointment form with "Show time as" set to Free,
Changing the End Date on Recurring Appointments
How to end a recurring appointment or cancel future events in a recurring meeting and keep any exceptions (including notes in individual occurrences or appointments/meetings moved to different dates).
Print Monthly or Work Week Calendars
Print a Monday to Friday work week calendar in Outlook. How to print the calendar with Sunday as the first day of the week.
Week numbers
How to show week numbers in windows and mac versions Week numbers was last modified: May 4th, 2015 by Diane Poremsky
How to choose which Calendar creates reminders?
You can disable reminders in pst files that are not used as a delivery location for an email account, but it will affect all reminders and flags, not just calendar reminders.
Annoying Outlook 2013 Calendar Features
Anyone who lives in Outlook's calendar has run into popup and other annoyances that can't be turned off or disabled.
Outlook Calendar: Week numbers are wrong
Under certain conditions, Outlook will incorrectly label week numbers in the Calendar.
Inviting Others to a Meeting
How to invite others to a meeting when you are not the meeting organizer.
Moving Birthdays drops the recurrence
Moving recurring items in older versions of Outlook creates a single event. Learn how to move or copy the entire recurring event to a new calendar.
Add Contact Address to the Location field in an Appointment
When making the New Appointment if John Smith is entered into the Subject Field is there any way of having Outlook Calendar auto-complete the address information? This is a varation of an earlier macro that creates an appointment with a contact and includes their address in the location field. This macro gets the contact name