Calendar color choices too limited.
Need more than 7 color choices. We schedule a service desk and need separate colors for each persons calendar. These are calendars, not events so we need the choice in the drop down for the calendar, not in categories.
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Thank you for your feedback! The deployment for an option to switch to more saturated calendar colors in the new Outlook on the web is now complete.
If you would like to try out this experience, please click on the gear icon in the top right of your calendar module to access your settings, and toggle “Bold event colors”.
74 comments
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Anonymous
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How is this not a 30-minute fix? How many Microsoft customers only have 9 team members.
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Bella
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THIS IS **** no decent calendar has so few colour choice.
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Ingo Ratsdorf
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Ggive us unlimited RGB color choices. I have 15 calendars and only 9 colours which look way too similar, makes it only 6 colours really!
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Anonymous
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We just switched from Google calendar to Outlook Exchange Calendar and I am SO disappointed!!! I could have a zillion colors on Google, now with 15 people in my office, I'm limited to NINE??? So I'm doubling up and have no idea who's calendar is who's half the time. Microsoft, YOU CAN DO BETTER THAN THIS! It's 2020!
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Pat
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"How can we improve Outlook on the Web?"
Make it match the desktop versions & give us unlimited RGB color choices. The web versions of all the Microsoft O365 programs are watered down & cumbersome. -
Ursula Lyons
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Is this he Person WE COMPLAIN to ??
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/70852
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Ursula Lyons
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So all of us who use Outlook Locally cant get BACK the options we used to have OH and this is ALSO about the Over Lay Colour Options. The contrast between Over Lay and Categories is so minimal as to be Useless PLEASE Treat use types Equally Please Fix
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Nigel
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Why does Microsoft find this so hard? I am using Google Calendar and things now, because they have a color picker where I can choose thousands of colors. This is the only thing keeping me from switching to Outlook. I have alot of calendars, so I need more then 6 colors.
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Anonymous
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If the MS architecture team cared, which they don't, they'd AT LEAST give some reason *even a lame one* as to the limit. Not a priority you can say. So much time the user base spends identifying improvements that are much needed. Try to find a 3rd party solution.
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Marc
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Are you kidding, February 2019... over a year, come on guys, add some color.
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Anonymous
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We don't need bold colors, we need MORE colors. Way more.
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Debbie DeHart
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The gear Icon is only on web, and today when my machine updated destktop 2016 changed my measly colors, they are horrible. I want to pick my own and plenty of them.
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Ian Shere
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Ditto the Feb 27 comment... Gear icon???? Where? Not in Office 2016. Maybe they only care about Office 365....
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Anonymous
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I don't have a gear icon in the upper right hand corner. Where do I access the bold colors. I would like to use one of them as the default color for an entire calendar. Is that possible?
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Anonymous
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Can you set up the color options for the calendar from an RGB option? instead of pre-designated standard or bold pallettes?
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Anonymous
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We need more color options for Outlook Calendar. Nine colors simply isn't enough. When Google is offering over 24, Outlook needs to be able to at least keep up with their competition.
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Simon
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Really? Nine... NINE! Colors to choose from! In 2020!? You're really pushing the borders 🤣.
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Joshua
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I need more than 9 color options! Why can't I have a calendar that's yellow or black or brown or whatever? I recently migrated to O365 from gmail (gmail has 24+ colors) and am really frustrated by this.
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Argh
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To moderator: you only mention Outlook on the web. The issue needs to be resolved on Outlook desktop app as well. I'm so frustrated after upgrade to Win10 and new Outlook.... Argh!
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Anonymous
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Adding a similar comments as the others in hopes someone at Microsoft will listen: I use categories extensively in my project management. Why isn't there the option to have a full RBG palette of colors to choose from? The new "bold" options are so similar to one another, there are basically useless for users.
