You can select 2 or 3 weeks in the navigation calendars and view those weeks in a monthly-style grid.
This trick works on all versions of Outlook.
To change the number of weeks in the calendar view:
- Start with any Day/Week/Month view
- Drag the mouse over the dates in the navigation calendar to select up to 6 full weeks.
The display will change to the monthly grid format with large cells. The size of the cells are dependent on the size of your Outlook window and your screen resolution, along with the number of weeks selected.
The only downfall to this method is that the selection is not saved. The view reverts to 30 day view when you change folders.
Quick tip: Select the weeks in the To-Do Bar from any Outlook folder and you'll jump to the Calendar folder with the weeks selected.
I gave up on internal solutions and wrote a script for Autohotkey (AHK) I've set it to run with F3, but AHK has a myriad of ways to trigger it. Caveats: (A few changes to the script can compensate for most of these) 1. It shows the CURRENT date in week 1, followed by two (or your choice) weeks. Doing the same for a date other than the current one is not trivial. 2. It assumes you have the Date Navigator shown in the To-Do bar on the right. Unfortunately, Msft uses redundant ribbon commands for "Normal" mode for the Navigator, so there is no simple way to be sure it's active. 3. It sends commands to a maximized calendar window of a specific screen size. If your screen isn't set to 1280x800, use AHK's Window Spy to set the coordinates (noted in the comments). 5. It has only been tested with Outlook 2010, Windows 7 Pro 32 bit, AHK v1.1.23.01. F3:: ; Show a 3-week calendar in Outlook. ©2016 dp.swstuf@9ox.net IfWinActive, Calendar - { WinGet, mnmx, MinMax, Calendar - WinMaximize, Calendar - ; Calculate what week of the month it is currently. wk := Floor((A_DD+6-A_WDay)/7)+1 ; Note that if… Read more »
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It's working here in chrome, Firefox, and Edge (tested in the private browser option of each). (Line wrap in the comment box is broken in Chrome and FF. Ugh.)
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Hi, I'm new to windows 10 and feel like I keep hitting brick walls. I am trying to get more events to appear on a monthly calendar. I read your instructions about clicking and dragging, but nothing happens. I'm also used to using a mouse and am now using a pad which I find very difficult. Can you help? donna
Which version of Outlook do you use? (This works with outlook desktop software, not the windows 10 calendar app)
Thanks for the tip. I have started running outlook twice, one for emails and one for the calendar - this way the view doesn't reset as I switch between outlooks to see emails and calendar entries.
Ditto: Thank you very much... really useful...
Hi Diane,
thank you for all the information! Having an overview over 2 or 3 weeks is paramount to me. So I kept on searching to to this or smth similar via VBA and I stumbled upon this:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff867853(v=office.15).aspx
The article includes a VBA macro to create a sub "CreateTwoWeekView()".
I think this would do it - but I'm incapable of getting it working in the VBA editor. Just don't know where to put it! (ThisOutlookSession under your guide https://www.slipstick.com/developer/how-to-use-outlooks-vba-editor/ isn't working)
Thank you so much!
Peter
Dang. I had high hopes it was a 2 week month format, but its 2 weeks in day/week format. :(
Screenshot: https://screencast.com/t/lc4PFrgOh
It's not a bad view, just not the same as two weeks in a month. You can get close with Alt+0, no macro required (that is 10 days, not 14, the other numbers do the same.)
It should work in ThisOutlookSession, but right click on Project1 and choose Insert Module and put it into the module. Is macro security turned off? Do you get any error messages?
While trying this, I found that line:
Dim objFolder as FOLDER
needed to be changed to:
Dim objFolder as Outlook.Folder
else it would crash on the "Set objView" line.
This may not be true for everyone, but it was true in my case, so I thought I'd mention it.
Still haven't found a way to show a real "Two Week" view though. By "real" I mean week one on one row, and week two on a second row, which is, I believe, what you're looking for as well. I'm not sure there IS a solution, but if I find one, I'll be sure and tell the world! :-)
At this time (and probably never), there is not a way to create a persistent 2 week view. Sorry. :(
Hi Diane -
I have a staff person who wants to see her calendar in the work-week view (5-days) incorporated into a monthly view. Any chance on that? I was able to shift click for up to 14 days which gives her almost 15, but I cannot go any further.
Will this option be available in Outlook 2013?
Thank you.
Peggy DaValt
No, its not an option in Outlook 2013. Sorry.
How is it possible that Microsoft hasn't addressed making this vital feature persistent??!? Users have been asking for this for years, yet Microsoft apparently isn't concerned with what would make their customers happy or more productive. The sad thing is, it would probably be ten lines of code that some junior programmer could borrow from another module in three minutes.
From what I understand, they looked at it but it was too complicated. :(
I did this in 2010 as well as displaying a rolling 6 day view and it was persistent. Don't know why they decided to drop that functionality for 2016.
There is a next 7 day view button, and a you can use alt+ numbers to show from 1 to 10 days, in day view. These are both persistent views and available in Outlook 2016.
very good tip but MS should include a fix for this. i plan multiple events at a time and need to see 3-4 weeks at a glance or i cant schedule the events efficiently. otherwise its back to a pen and paper diary.