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Microsoft Office - Out of Office

Asked by: DavePlumb

I had a user (OK, he's a principal of the firm, so I have to be nice to him) ask me if there's some way his Office Calendar could highlight a day when he's on vactation.  He said "When I had a paper calendar, I'd just put a big red X through the day.  Now its just a little bar just like any other appointment."  I do see his point.
Anyway, I'd like to see if there's some method (or addin) that can turn a day a different color if you've said you're Our of Office.

BTW, its MS Office 2000 ST-1
The Microsoft ng wasn't much help.  Here's what they said:

Out of Office is an Exchange server based notification and not an
appointment.  You can always add an appointment to your calendar when you
are out of the office.  I have a recurring appointment that keeps track of
my alternate work week day off (9/80 schedule).

You can use conditional formatting for these appointments to show in color
but they will only display the coloring in a table view.  The normal
day/week/month view will not show colors as Outlook 2002 will.

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2003-06-27 at 13:28:49ID20662541
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Answers

 

by: bruintjePosted on 2003-06-29 at 03:17:32ID: 8821832

not much of an answer but inside outlook there is no way to do this [maybe with third party tools??]

you can make a holiday appointment mark it as out of office and stretch over the days and do this 5 times so all will be covered

LOL!

sorry for not being more helpfull

 

by: RascalBirdPosted on 2003-06-29 at 21:12:21ID: 8824917

Hi there

Firstly - bruintje i like your sense of humour :)

Secondly - Dave I MIGHT have a possible solution for you

Granted, it isn't quite what he wants but hopefully it will do

Go to the day where he is away for the day in the outlook calendar and do the following:

1/ Go to create a new appointment
2/ Give it a name of some sort
3/ Tick "All day event"
4/ select to "Show time as: Out of Office"

Granted this will not make the entire day another colour but it will put a purple bar (as long as the defaults haven't been changed) down inbetween the times of the day and the appointment area.

That way he has a colour indicator as well as the grey bar at the top of the page.


I hope that helps

Kat

 

by: turn123Posted on 2004-01-16 at 08:36:17ID: 10130883

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