How do you change the color of an Internet Calendar in Outlook?

Question

It's easy to change the color of your personal calendar...
Tools > Options > Calendar Options... > Default color.

However, it seems when adding an internet calendar, or viewing another shared calendar from a user on my domain, Outlook randomly chooses the color. Is there a way for the user to choose the color?

Answer 1

This is now possible using Outlook 2010.

1. Select the calendar you wish to change.
2. Select the View tab on the ribbon.
3. Click the 'Color' button and select the desired color.

Answer 2

Unfortunately it seems that you cannot decide on the background colors for additional calendars (for Outlook 2007 and earlier).

Here's a short answer (to the same question as yours) from an MS Outlook MVP, dated March 2010 (found here):

No. Outlook assigns the color.

Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]

Wish I had better news for you.

Answer 3

To change the color of a shared or internet calendar- open the calendar you would like to change the color of, go to options--> calendar options --> set default color --> save

if you would like all of your calendars to be the same color click the "use selected color on all calendars" box.