March 9th, 2005
Calendar Preferences - Display Part 1
My last blog entry started a series of
tips in which I am going to cover the various options available in Calendar
Preferences. I started by covering the Basics
tab, in this tip I am go to start going over the Display tab.
The Display tab is divided into two main sections, "How the Calendar
View is Displayed" and "Displaying
Calendar Entries in Mail Views".
Each of these sections contains a great deal of information, so I am going
to cover each of them in a separate blog entry.
Additionally, you will notice that between the two sections there is text
that says "To set additional calendar preferences, including display
an alternate time zone, choose File - Preferences - User Preferences and
click International - Calendar." I am going to cover that in
a third blog entry.
Below is a picture of the top half of the "Calendar & To Do -
Display" tab.
Let's examine how the various settings
available here affect what you see on screen. With the settings as
shown above, when I open my calendar (to the one day view for example)
I see my calendar as shown in the image below. You can see the first
time slot shown is 9:00 am, and that each hour is divided in half, or into
30 minute time slots.
When you scroll up and down the calendar view to see more of the day, you
notice it is divided into three sections. The first area (grey) is
shown from midnight until the defined beginning of the work day.
The second area (white) covers the times between the beginning to the end
of the defined work day. The third area (grey) is the end of the
defined work day to midnight.
By changing the preferences to have the beginning of the work day at 10:00
am, and display 15 minute time slots, my calendar now looks like this:
Moving on to the next preference, on the right hand side of the top section
of the "Calendar & To Do - Display" tab,
you can choose which days to display in
the various "Work Week" views. For example, say you work
only Monday to Thursday (lucky you!) you can choose just those four days,
and then when you switch to one of the "Work Week" views:
the calendar will only display Monday to Thursday.
So go ahead, customize your calendar to display the specific working hours,
time slots, and days of the week to suit your exact schedule. You
find working with Notes C&S much more enjoyable, when it is configured
for your exact needs.
