Set Outlook to Start with Calendar Folder

Outlook Calendar Tricks

In today’s scenario everyone use email to connect to others. Also they can share information through email in which Outlook is the most popular emailing system used by most peoples. They maintain their appointments and meetings schedules in Outlook to remind their schedule timing in their regular work done between crises. Scheduling management makes our work easy to manage our meeting, appointments time and date. That’s where Outlook Calendar features come in. Calendar is just like as an electronic version of your day planner.

In other words we can say that Calendar helps in spending less time in scheduling process, which provide more time to do your work.  In this section we mention some tricks and techniques that help you to understand Outlook Calendar feature.

Starting Outlook in the Calendar Folder

When we start Outlook, by default it starts with Inbox folder because most of the people use Outlook for email. If you spend your most of the time with Outlook Calendar then we prefer to display the Calendar automatically when you start up the Outlook. Here are some steps describe how to do that:

1. Select Tools, click on Options. An Options dialog box will appear.
2. Choose the “Other” tab.
3. Click on Advanced Options and a dialog box will appear on the screen.
4. Select Browse. A “Select Folder” dialog box will open.
5. Choose Calendar folder.
6. Click OK and you’ll return on “Advanced Options” dialog box.
7. Click OK again and return to “Options” dialog box.
8. Click OK to save changes made for new setting.

Change the Number of Days Displayed by the Calendar

Outlook shows an option of Calendar in Navigation Pane, if click on that it will show you the calendar grid for today’s date. To view the other date, you select that date from the Date Navigator. The date selected by you, is shown by the Calendar in a grid view. This must be known as Day Calendar which is default view of the Calendar. Outlook provides you multiple patterns to view the Calendar. You can choose from those patterns that are suitable for your needs to work with. Here we mention some simple steps to change the number of days displayed in the Calendar grid.

• Choose View, Click on Work Week to view the Calendar in Work Week view, which shows Monday to Friday for whatever date was selected in the Date Navigator. For example: If today’s date was selected in the Date Navigator, and you want to switch to the Work Week view. Then it displays Monday to Friday for current week.
• Choose View and select Week to switch to Week view, which shows Sunday to Saturday for whatever date you had selected in the date navigator.
• Click View and select the Month to switch to the Month view. This view displays the five weeks surround whatever date was selected in the Date Navigator.
• Choose View and click on Day to switch to the Day view.