Introduction To Outlook 2007 Create and View Multiple Calendars

Outlook supports more than one calendar at a time. If you use Outlook to manage business and personal calendar, having two separate calendars is ideal because it allows you to keep different aspects of your life separate. And because Outlook lets you keep multiple calendars, you have great flexibility for separating things the way that makes most sense to you.

Creating a new calendar

Follow these steps to create a new schedule:

    Calendar, click File, then New, then Calendar. The dialog box Create new folder appears.

    Enter the name of the new calendar, and accept all other default options to create your new calendar in the existing calendar folder.

    Click OK to actually create the new calendar. The new calendar will now appear in the My Calendars Switchboard.

To say that the Outlook calendar or calendars you want it to display is easy. Just set each calendar name next to the check box you want Outlook to view and clear the check box if you want the hidden calendar. If you select multiple calendars, Outlook all displayed simultaneously.

There are two unique ways Outlook can display multiple calendars, and if three or more calendars are visible, you can mix and match to meet the needs of the moment. Outlook can display side by side or stacked schedules over another. Overlapping vision is one of the new calendar features introduced in Outlook 2007.

Given side by side, calendars appear next to each other on the screen, as if you had two calendars of paper you want to compare. This makes it easier to spot scheduling conflicts or hours in all calendars. At the same time, with all the information stacked on another, this view can be confusing, especially if their schedules are busy, to do many things all gnashed together.