Outlook 2000 in a Nutshell

Name

Calendar View Options

Synopsis

We’re going to break from our discussion of menu commands and look quickly at the configuration options available for Calendar views. These options are found at the bottom of the View → Current View menu (Customize Current View and Define Views), so they logically belong somewhere toward the end of this chapter if we were to follow strict topic-menu order. It’s better to be aware of configuration options now, however, before we start discussing Calendar’s preconfigured views.

It bears repeating that Calendar supports two types of view: Day/Week/Month and table. This distinction ripples throughout everything to do with views: how they display, the contents of context menus, and the available configuration options.

There’s nothing unique about Calendar’s Table views; they work the same, act the same, and are configured the same in Calendar as they are in other Outlook components. To open a Table view’s options dialog, go to View → Current View → Customize Current View and click on the Other Settings button (see Figure 7-36, left).

Shortcut to the View Settings Dialog

Accessing a view’s settings dialog through Outlook’s menus is an exercise in inefficiency. Thankfully, there’s a two-click shortcut. Right-click in any open area of a view, and from the context menu choose Other Settings. This trick works for both Calendar and Table views.

The Other Settings dialog, shown in Figure 7-36 (left), contains the options for setting the properties of column headings, ...