Outlook desktop calendar defaults to open at 12am instead of the work day

Anonymous
2024-07-19T17:44:10+00:00

I use the desktop version and it opens with midnight at the top instead of 8am like is used to

  1. the Web version opens to the current time but the desktop version opens to 12am (see screen shot)

I would like it to open either to the beginning of my day (at 8am like is used to) or the current time is fine as well (like the web version does)

  1. my desktop version is

I can scroll down every time but its annoying. My work hours are set to 8am-4pm. I am not using New Outlook because you cannot move the folders around. This issue is only a few months old.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-10-02T18:42:02+00:00

    Thank you, this worked for me too!

    Hi, I had this issue as well - the fix for me was to change the work hours from Outlook on the web, as the Outlook desktop client is currently broken, with the inability to save work hours.

    Click the gear wheel, then choose Calendar, work hours and location, and change the start time to 9am (or whatever time you start). When you change this, it will give you the option to save, and then after a few minutes restart outlook desktop and it will work.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-10-07T08:44:33+00:00

    Hi, I had this issue as well - the fix for me was to change the work hours from Outlook on the web, as the Outlook desktop client is currently broken, with the inability to save work hours.

    Click the gear wheel, then choose Calendar, work hours and location, and change the start time to 9am (or whatever time you start). When you change this, it will give you the option to save, and then after a few minutes restart outlook desktop and it will work.

    Hei Aaron

    I tried your solution as it seems to have worked for several people, but unfortunately it didn't work for me.

    What I did was changing "start" and "end" hours on the web version to see if they updated on my desktop version and it worked so that the greyed-out hours coincide, but it's still so that every time I open the Calendar tab on Outlook, it shows the days starting at 00:00 and I have to scroll down to see anything on my calendar.

    This was the issue the others were reporting, and found your suggestion to be the solution, right? Or am I misunderstanding here?

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-10-09T19:23:57+00:00
    • Go to the ONLINE outlook at outlook.office365.com
    • Go to settings>calendar>work hours and location
    • Change each of the times a little bit, say start at 7:15 am, click SAVE
    • Then change the times for all the days back to your desired start time, say 8 am, click SAVE
    • Now restart your DESKTOP outlook.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-10-10T07:23:04+00:00

    Update: I guess I just had to wait more than "a few minutes". The day after, after having followed Aaron's advice, the days started at 08:00 as I needed them to do.

    So thank, you, Aaron!

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-10-22T17:03:05+00:00

    This worked for me! Thank you!! 😁

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