Microsoft Outlook 2007: Change your Calendar Work Days

By default in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007, the work week is set from Monday through Friday with a work day extending from 8 A.M. to 5 P.M.. The first day of the week in Calendar is Sunday.

You can choose the days of the week that are a part of your work week, the time when your work day starts and ends, and the day of the week that you want to be the start of your week.

Change your Calendar work days

1. On the Tools menu, click Options.
2. Click Calendar Options.
3. Under Calendar work week, select the check boxes for the days that are a part of your work week. Clear the check boxes for the days that are not a part of the work week.

Microsoft Outlook 2007: Add Holidays to Calendar

1. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click Calendar Options.
2. Under Calendar options, click Add Holidays.
3. Select the check box next to each country/region whose holidays you want to add to your calendar, and then click OK.

Note   Your own country/region is automatically selected.

If you already added a country’s or region’s holidays to your calendar, the check box for that country/region is selected in the Add Holidays to Calendar dialog box. If you try to add the same items again, you receive the following message:

Holidays for country/region are already installed. Do you want to install them again?

If you click Yes, the holidays and events are installed a second time, and you see duplicate holiday and event entries.

Note   The holiday information that is provided with Outlook includes items during calendar years 2006 through 2012. If you are using a non-Gregorian calendar, items that occur during the same time period are included.

Microsoft Outlook 2007: Prevent meeting request replies

In Microsoft Office Outlook, you can send a meeting request and not track the attendees’ responses. Not tracking the responses can be useful when you send a meeting request to a large number of attendees but do not want to know who can and cannot attend.
Turn off meeting request responses

In a new meeting request, do the following:

1. On the Meeting tab, in the Attendees group, click Responses.

Note   For recurring meetings, the Meeting tab appears as the Recurring Meeting tab.
2. Click Request Responses to clear the Request Responses and Allow New Time Proposal check boxes.

Note   If you turn off the Request Responses option, you will not be able to track whether attendees have accepted, tentatively accepted, or declined. For instance, when you open the meeting in your calendar, click the Meeting tab, and then click Tracking in the Show group, the Response column will display None for all of the attendees.