Microsoft Outlook: show multi-day appointments as boxes in calendar day and week view

Question

I would like to show appointments spanning several days the same way as appintments within a single day.

Single day appointments are shown with a white or colored box, covering the day horizontally.

Multi-day appointments are shown in the day/week header and are indicated blue or purple on the left side of a day. This happens even if a multi-day appointment is not an all-day appointment (i.e. checkbox is off) and I have a start and end time. I frequently have a hard time seeing appointment overlaps wenn acceping single day appointments.

Therefore I am looking for multi-day appointments shown the same way as single day appointments.

I am on Outlook 2003.

Answer 1

Sounds like your multi-day appointments are scheduled as all day events while "single day" appointments are part of the day. To get the same affect, schedule the multi day appointments as partial day (start & end time, not all day event) and repeat over several days.