May 25 2020 01:37 AM
I couldn't have phrased it better, so I just steal what someone else wrote about that:
"My Outlook calendar appearance has suddenly changed overnight, from a clean, white appearance to grey with grid lines. I've tried all of the usual settings in calendar options to change the appearance back to the previous one but to no avail.
Does anyone know how to revert to the cleaner view? This new look is untidy and distracting."
Posting it here, because there is no answer at answers.microsoft.com, (as is tradition).
Changing the color theme does not work. It just shifts the colors around.
The biggest issues I have with this view is that it's a visual mess, hard to read and distracting. And that the fine line showing you the current time is gone completely.
May 27 2020 04:28 PM
@DanielNiccoli Yeah mate. I'm fricken struggling with the new view. Hope we can find a way to revert!
May 28 2020 12:47 AM
Die dunklen Linien sind sehr unübersichtlich und verwirren die Übersicht. Bitte unbedingt eine Möglichkeit geben das wieder zu ändern.
Translate by google:
The dark lines are very confusing and confuse the overview. Please give an opportunity to change that again.
May 29 2020 11:01 AM
@DanielNiccoli Yup, same here. Also the name and day of week heading fonts got larger and bolded and the "live line" was changed to a black half circle
May 29 2020 11:56 AM
@DanielNiccoli You are talking about the half hour lines? It's the "new improved outlook"... You'll have them for all of the time scales for the minutes. The lines do look darker in your theme than in the colorful theme.
There is also a dotted line that goes around some appointments - here, its on meetings added to me calendar that i have not responded to but I had one user who had it on appointments on a shared calendar.
Also new is the dot that extends over the previous dates.
I didn't find a suggestion about the grid lines at uservoice - you can leave a suggestion for it. (There are a couple of the dot that shows the current hour.)
https://outlook.uservoice.com/forums/322590-outlook-2016-for-windows
Jun 03 2020 05:47 AM
Thanks @Diane_Poremsky_MVP
I raised one on Monday, but it's still pending moderator approval.
Not sure if this remains the link when it's approved, but this is the current one:
Oct 13 2020 03:37 AM
@DanielNiccoli This! It is driving me crazy. I hate this world of automatic changes. Microsoft, PLEASE STOP HELPING ME! I can't find if it can be reverted. Ultimate first world problen I fully realize.
Oct 13 2020 10:50 AM
@ woke up this morning to this HORRIBLE calendar too. So now, I my options are to switch to colourfull view and burn my eyes staring at the bright white screen when working on emails (super tiring even with the night light mode on), or spend twice as much time identifying what it happening in my calendar to schedule my days.... Plus all my coloured categories are messed up too, with colours way to similar to one another to stand out... Unreal 😞
Jan 20 2021 02:23 AM
Jan 20 2021 09:40 PM
This issue appeared for me this week and it doesn't appear to have any resolution? Themes don't play any role in this other than changing how pronounced the grid lines are appearing in the view.
I can't believe this was included in an update without any option to turn it off and revert to the old calendar setting. I sent feedback within Outlook, hopefully MS will have an answer soon.
Jan 21 2021 01:31 AM
@mroman2250 I'm glad I'm not alone on this. What I don't understand is I cannot find where the update happened. Also, as I'm on my company's AD, I would have assumed it was a company wide update but so far, I don't know anyone else who has had this.
Jan 21 2021 08:44 AM
@RichMillyard I checked with another user on my team and the same issue happened. Seems like MS sent out this in the update without an option to revert. Hopefully they get enough complaints.
I seem to have remembered this happening one time in the past as well and it going back to the previous view. Maybe we just need to wait?
Jan 21 2021 12:00 PM
@DanielNiccoli Same thing here and I have tried every setting. It changed on my personal 365 outlook but not on my work 365 outlook. Now they look differet. Looking at them side by side it looks soooooooo much better on my work outlook. Another difference for me too is the tabs are square on the new one vs slightly angled along with some other (less appealing changes)
Jan 26 2021 06:50 AM
This is terrible. Horrible update; want and need my old calendar back!!
Mar 24 2021 05:23 AM
Jul 15 2021 09:36 AM
Have you tried using the "View Settings" from the email page of Outlook. I was able to modify mine using "Grid line style" value set to no grid lines. Once I touched that, the gridlines throughout office were impacted.
Jul 15 2021 10:33 AM
@datamonkey It's not changing the calendar view for me unfortunately. Thanks for the suggestion thought! I keep hoping....
Jul 15 2021 01:00 PM
@N3rdy590 The black lines are part of the new design and are here to stay, until they change it again., Use the Help > Feedback option to comment on it.
Jul 16 2021 06:08 AM
@datamonkey unfortunately I didn't have this option in my version, so wasn't able to change the settings for grid lines. I appreciate the suggestion!
Jul 16 2021 07:02 AM