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Default Meeting Duration
Hello, I was recently asked if there is a way to change the default duration of meeting. i.e when booking a calendar event, if defaults to 30 minutes. What I was asked to do is change it to 1...
I have been searching for this answer forever. I found a solution that makes my life so much easier, and even though this was years ago, I thought I'd share for anyone else who is struggling with this same issue.
In Outlook or Teams, when you schedule a new appointment, typically you click on the spot you want the time of the meeting to start, and then schedule the meeting (in Teams, the scheduling window pops up automatically, in outlook, you have to right click and schedule meeting/appointment).
Instead of clicking the spot when you want the meeting to start, click and hold down the mouse while dragging to the next spot. Then proceed as you would when scheduling before. In Teams, for example, you'll click on the 9am block, drag it to the 9:30 clock beneath it, and when you release the mouse, the meeting window will pop up and it will be 60 minutes. in outlook, do the same, only then you would right click to schedule the meeting.
So simple, and yet I've spent the last 4 hours trying to find a solution. Hope this helps someone out there.
This has to be a bug. There is an option to set your default calendar timescale and another separate and distinct option to set your default duration for new meetings and appointments. You are allowed to enter different values in each and those values are preserved on Save. Yet when you create a new meeting, the default duration is not the value you entered for default meeting duration, it is the value you selected default calendar timescale. Seems like people have been documenting this for over three years and MS has been assuming we all misunderstand. Either they are not reading carefully or the option to set your default duration for new meetings and appointments is purely decorative...it prompts for and saves a value that is never used in the system. Bug? Design Flaw? Right hand ignoring the left hand? Working as designed? Just plain stupid? Tomato tomahto?...infuriating
