Outlook - Set Your Work Hours in Outlook Tutorial

Discover how to manage your working hours in Outlook and make them visible to colleagues. Learn to set or modify your working days, hours, and work location, along with viewing a colleague's calendar in the same organization. Gain insight into displaying public holidays and compare two calendars effortlessly. Set your work hours for greater collaboration and availability!

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Available in Microsoft365

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The advantage is being able to visualize your

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working hours and make them visible to colleagues.

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Sharing the same organization.

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First, we will go to the calendar

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by default. The calendar display mode is by month.

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You can change this display mode by selecting work week to see only

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the working days display the whole week here or return to the month display

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in weak mode,

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nonworking hours are grayed out which is also visible to your colleagues

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to set or modify working hours. Click on the view tab then on calendar settings

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in the window that appears choose work hours and location in

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this panel, you can set your working days hours and work location.

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If you work remotely or at the office,

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you can choose to display or not the work location in your calendar. In this space,

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we will set an end time at 1 p.m. this Thursday to see the difference on the calendar.

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Click save, then close to return to the previous page.

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You will see that on Thursday at the set time, the calendar is indeed grayed out

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to view a colleague's calendar in the same organization,

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click on add calendar in the left navigation pane, click on add from directory,

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then select the email address to which the colleague is linked,

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enter their email address and select my calendars so that the

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display is proposed in the navigation pane of this area.

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Click on add, then close the window,

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select the split display mode on the

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ribbon to make comparing the two calendars easier

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to hide their calendar uncheck. The name in the navigation bar,

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a little tip,

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you can also view public holidays on your calendar by checking public holiday.

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Make sure to disable split mode for easier reading.

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Now you understand how to schedule your working hours

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so that your colleagues can check your availability.

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