Add Color To Your Calendar

Microsoft Outlook 2002 and later allow you to add color to your calendar to highlight games and events that are important to you.  Outlook has 10 colors that you can use to color appointments, games, holidays and meetings. These colors are visible in Day/Week/Month view of Calendar.

You can color individual or recurring events manually, or you can use rules to automatically color items that meet certain conditions, such as when a certain category is assigned to the event.  Manual coloring always take precedence over automatic coloring, so if you have applied manual coloring to an item, automatic coloring will not be applied to it.

HOW TO MANUALLY APPLY COLOR

1. Open Microsoft Outlook and click to view your calendar.

2. Double-click on the event on your calendar that you wish to apply color to. This will open the event on your calendar.

3. In the Label list, select the color of your choice.

4. Click on Save and Close.

Colors are visible in Day/Week/Month view of your Calendar.

HOW TO AUTOMATICALLY APPLY COLOR

1. Open Microsoft Outlook and click to view your calendar.

2. Right-click on the calendar grid, and then click Automatic Formatting on the shortcut menu.

3. Click Add, and then type a name for the rule such as "Holiday".

4. In the Label list, click a color of your choice.

5. Click Condition to specify the conditions under which the color will be applied.

6. Click the More Choices tab.

7. Select Categories and choose a category of your choice (such as "Holiday").

Note: All of our Calendar Updates are assigned categories for your convenience. The schedule will need to be imported onto your calendar before you will see our assigned category in your list.

8. Click OK three times to close the boxes on your screen.

9. If the colors are not immediately visible on your calendar, switch to your Inbox and then back to your calendar. All items assigned to the category that you selected should now be in color.

Colors are visible in Day/Week/Month view of your Calendar.

Note: If you manually assign a color to an item, automatic coloring cannot be used on that item.