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
    2025-03-18T16:32:31+00:00

    The feature is only available at Current Channel. I asked my peers that cover Calendar to find out the latest status and update the content to reflect where it is supposed to be, Set your work hours and location in Outlook - Microsoft Support.

    In the meantime, unless your company restricts your Office channel you could switch to Current Channel to use the feature. There are several approaches/tools to change channel. Here is one I used yesterday and worked well for me:

    Enable Update Channel button in Outlook/Office apps.

    1. Close classic Outlook
    2. Go to this MVP article, Let users decide their Microsoft 365 Apps (Office 365) Release Channel - Robert 365
    3. In that article under Method 2 download the registry key officechannelexposure.zip, then right click the zip file and extract it.
    4. Double click on the exported registry file officechannelexposure.reg to install it.
    5. Start Outlook
    6. Click File, Office Account, click Update Channel and pick Current Channel. Office will start updating to Current Channel. If it does not start updating immediately click File, Office Account, Update Options, Update Now.

    This change adds the Update Channel button when you go to File, Office Account, Update Channel.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-03-18T10:20:57+00:00

    Thanks so much it worked !!

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-03-05T07:55:08+00:00

    Dear all,

    Have you managed solve this issue, cos I have the same trouble.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-02-14T20:19:37+00:00

    I did this. It worked for the current day, then I skipped forward to next week and it went right back to showing midnight. It just started for me a few weeks ago and is sporadic, but does it more often than not and is very annoying as I manage multiple calendars for people as well as rooms, so I am in the calendar constantly. My IT guy looked at updates just last week so I have all of those. I just can't seem to figure it out either. I changed my start times to see if that worked, but again, only for the current day. Closed out the desktop app and reopened it, did everything that was suggested here for the times and to no avail for me.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-12-11T14:23:39+00:00

    Initially, this didn't work for me. I had Outlook set to different start times on different days of the week. As an experiment, I tried making my starting time the same for every day of the week, and then this solution DID work. So if you use different start times, you may have to give that up to avoid having to scroll all the time. Totally worth it, in my book. Thanks, Aaron King!

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