Thursday 15 October 2009

Private appointments take place Out of Office

Dear Microsoft,

When creating a private appointment in my Microsoft Outlook (2007) calendar at work, I mark them private to prevent others from seeing what it's about. Not that I don't want to tell people what I'm doing - I just don't want to share it with everyone at the office.

In addition, as most, if not all, my private appointment takes place outside the office, I also mark them as "Out of Office", telling colleagues that I won't be around.

Based on an assumption that most people plan their private appointments to take place outside the office, I suggest that marking an appointment private automatically makes it show as Out of Office:



To more clearly visualize this dependency, the private button (and possibly the importance buttons) should also be moved towards the left hand side of the Options panel in the appointment ribbon.


Kind regards,

Asbjørn Floden