What version of Outlook do you use? Are you using compressed weekends in the
month view?

When the calendar was added 13 yrs ago, they modeled the month view after a
paper calendar - paper calendars don't move as the weeks pass. They know it's
a popular request and would likely do it if they could do so without
introducing bugs.

I've written about the long month problem many times- here are two of my
tips - several people at MS are subscribed to my mailing list, so they have
seen these:
http://www.outlook-tips.net/archives/2005/20051027.htm
http://www.outlook-tips.net/archives/2009/20090331.htm

See http://www.slipstick.com/tutorials/2wk_cal/2wk_cal.htm for an easy way
to pick the weeks you want to view. It's not persistent though.

PS: In the future please start your own thread rather than posting to a 2 yr
old thread. Most of us use a newsreader pointed directly to
msnews.microsoft.com and the egghead replies are formatted poorly and hard
to follow.

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"Thomas Kase" wrote in message ...
I am equally perplexed - the way MS Outlook behaves proves beyond a doubt
that coders are detached from reality - who would NOT want a rolling month
window?

I addition to what has been said already, personally I would like last
week at the top, current week as second row, and future weeks below that.
To me it is useful to also see last week's activities.

The ongoing Outlook switch between zero past weeks and four past weeks
depending on day of the month is helter-skelter nonsense. Anyone with 2
cents of UI research experience cannot deny that consistency is the
hallmark of good design.

Note someone else who finds this to be a shortcoming:
http://aspadvice.com/blogs/ssmith/ar...onth-View.aspx

The response by Redmond apologists will naturally be to adopt the MS view
of the calendar. Changing the way I work is less of a headache than
trying to get an MS product to do what I actually want.

In case any real MS coder reads this - I cannot see why a monthly view
option along the lines of "start with first day of the month", "start with
last week", or "start with current week" on top, would gum up the works.

Thomas



Brian Tillman wrote:

How to Set Current Week at Top of Month View
31-Mar-08

opieandy wrote: