Displaying your FULL Work Week in Outlook

By default Outlook displays the working week with 5 days only. Most Professionals and Small Business Owners don't have a normal 5 day working week. We often have appointments in the weekends as well.

Here's how you can change the 5 day view to show the full 7 days ...

If you are using Outlook 2000/2002 or 2003, there are two buttons on the Calendar toolbar that displays weekly views.

Clicking the Work Week button displays 5 days. This shows you the whole day (for each day) including empty time slots. It is easy to add a new appointment by clicking on the calendar in the appropriate time slot.

Clicking the Week button shows all 7 days in a condensed view that only shows appointments for each day. Empty time slots for the days are not shown and it takes more steps to add a new appointment.

Here's how you can change the Work Week to show all 7 days.

Click Tools-Options.
Select the Preferences Tab (should be selected by default anyway)
Click the Calendar Options button.
Tick Sat and Sun under Calendar Work Week.

Now when you click the Work Week button at the top of the screen, all 7 days will be displayed.

(Outlook 2007 users don't need to do this as Outlook 2007 displays the 7 day view with all time slots.)