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Outlook desktop client - showing multiple months of calendar in To-Do bar
Hi Jim -- this is getting traction on the UserVoice page, which in turn will bring more attention to this change in functionality. Could you go vote for it here please? https://outlook.uservoice.com/forums/322590-outlook-2016-for-windows/suggestions/11596416-allow-multiple-months-in-to-to-do-bar-like-in-outl
Adding Jennifer Lu as FYI (the PM for Windows Outlook calendar).
I've never had the need to add more months, but pinging Julia Foran as she can give you the authoritative answer on this :)
The presentation I describe existed until not that many major release levels ago.. Outlook 2013 maybe?
It's very convenient, when counting days across months or being able to drill down to a date on a previous or following month without first having to move the single month with the little back or forward months buttons.
It does certainly make sense - all that useless screen real estate.. I size that column at least wide enough to make it useful to show the to-do list below -- if it's narrow like one month then the upcoming appt and todo listaren't really usable -- so my desired handling -- "the way it used to be" -- is pretty logical.
I've attached a couple more screen grabs. Note that when the column is only wide enough for the single month showing the upcoming and todo are pretty truncated. When wide enough for upcoming and todo to be useful, then there's that pesky whitespace (yellow in my sample) just screaming out for more months to show! :)
I genuinely appreciate having this easy access to the real team at Microsoft - makes it worth my time to report and discuss my suggestions and concerns!!
/j