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In Calendar’s Day and Week views, the left side of the grid displays the hours of the day, divided into half-hour segments. This enables you to easily create appointments or meet­ings that begin on the hour or on the half hour. However, if you regularly set up appoint­ments at other times-for example, at 15 minutes past or 15 minutes to the hour-then the half-hour time scale is a problem because you then have to adjust the appointment start time.

To avoid this extra work, you can tell Outlook to display a finer time scale that breaks down each hour into smaller segments, such as 15 minutes, 10 minutes, or even 5 minutes. On the other hand, if you mostly set appointments for the top of the hour, you can see more hours at a time in the Calendar grid by using a 60-minute time scale.

Here are the steps to follow to customize the time scale:

1. Right-click the Calendar grid and then click Other Settings. Outlook opens the Format Day/Week/Month View dialog box.
2. Use the Time Scale list to click the scale you prefer: 60, 30, 15, 10, 6, or 5.
3. Click OK.

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When you’re in Day or Week view, a quicker way to change the time scale is to right-click the time display on the left side of the Calendar grid and then click the time scale you want (such as 60 Minutes or 15 Minutes).

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