How to have calendar default to current week at top in month view

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When the calendar is set to "month" view, how can I have the default view be
the current week at the top? It defaults to the current month regardless of
what week of the month it is.
 
Lee Y said:
When the calendar is set to "month" view, how can I have the default
view be the current week at the top? It defaults to the current
month regardless of what week of the month it is.
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I don't believe that's possible to change.
 
Is this fixed in Outlook2007? It's silly to not be able to change this!
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Silly or not, the calendar's monthly view is designed to show the current
month in its entirety.
 
The monthly view is set to show the full month such as in a desktop planner.

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After furious head scratching, Monte Fisher asked:

| Is this fixed in Outlook2007? It's silly to not be able to change
| this!
|
| "Brian Tillman" wrote:
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||| When the calendar is set to "month" view, how can I have the default
||| view be the current week at the top? It defaults to the current
||| month regardless of what week of the month it is.
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|| I don't believe that's possible to change.
|| --
|| Brian Tillman
 
OK, I now understand the reason it's that way, but that should be the reason
that that's the default -- there's no good reason not to have that changeable
-- it's anachronistic (and therefore silly IMO) to force it to be that way,
immutable, simply because that's what one was stuck with in the ancient days
of paper calendars/planners....
 
I have to agree with Monte as the monthly view causes the last week of the
month to not be on the current screen. I don't want to look at the weeks gone
by, I need to look at what is coming. In other programs I have used, ACT for
example, you have the option of anchoring the current week at the top of the
page which is quite useful. Just my 2 cents but I am sure we are not the only
ones that would like that option.

Monte Fisher said:
OK, I now understand the reason it's that way, but that should be the reason
that that's the default -- there's no good reason not to have that changeable
-- it's anachronistic (and therefore silly IMO) to force it to be that way,
immutable, simply because that's what one was stuck with in the ancient days
of paper calendars/planners....

Milly Staples said:
The monthly view is set to show the full month such as in a desktop planner.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
ALWAYS post your Outlook version.
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


After furious head scratching, Monte Fisher asked:

| Is this fixed in Outlook2007? It's silly to not be able to change
| this!
|
| "Brian Tillman" wrote:
|
||
||| When the calendar is set to "month" view, how can I have the default
||| view be the current week at the top? It defaults to the current
||| month regardless of what week of the month it is.
||
|| I don't believe that's possible to change.
|| --
|| Brian Tillman
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I've told this story to numerous people now, and everyone finds it hysterical
that M$ FORCES Outlook users to view their calendar in just one way, because
they based it on paper calendars and day-timers, what, a decade ago, and
their thinking is still frozen.

And they continue to reduce features -- I just noticed today that Outlook
2007 now FORCES you to use Word as your html email editor, which is just
awful ... sigh........
 
Word, Outlook? Perhaps you should look in task manager and see if
WinWord.exe starts up when you create an HTML e-mail.
 
Why, yes it does -- AND it stays running, hidden, even after Outlook is
closed -- 64MB of memory wasted!

Any way to stop that, in Outlook 2007?
 
That shouldn't happen as Word is not used by Outlook in 2007(was in
2003). Perhaps you have configured Word to edit HTML in Internet
Explorer? Or perhaps its a problem carried over from a Upgrade
installation from 2003. Is that the case in your installation? Is yours
an Upgrade install? And was Word set as the e-mail editor?
 
Have you checked to see whether Word appears in the task manager when you
edit an email? (For me, it is not there when I open Outlook, only when I
start creating or editing an email -- and as I noted below, it stays there
(hidden) when Outlook is closed.)

It is an upgrade installation, but I've never used Word as my email editor
(not with '03 or '00 or...) -- also, I've configured Windows Explorer to edit
htm/html documents with notepad (which was trivial with XP but is quite a
pain in the <bleep> with Vista...).
 
Interesting, I can't say whether the issue is Vista, or something else
triggering it, but Word should not be starting. It may be something that
other users can comment on as I don't have Vista and Outlook 2007. But
it certainly doesn't start with Outlook here on XP.
 
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