How To Create A Shared Calendar In Outlook 2003

How to open a shared calendar in Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2010

Posted Date:

30 Mar 2013 |Updated:

In this article, there are a very simple steps given to open a shared calendar when a person is given access to a user's calendar. Please see the below article to know more about shared calendar.

Introduction

Shared calendar is a feature in Outlook which helps users to give permissions to manage time i.e., daily meetings and appointments to their sub ordinates like personal secretaries, assistants, etc. This is usually done by the high profile candidates in an organization like AVPs, VPs, CEOs, Chairmen, Presidents, Board of Directors, etc., whose time is precious and needs to be organized and managed well to meet all the business needs.

In a process, while printing a shared calendar, a very common error is encountered in shared calendar. Please know more about it in my another article on techulator by seeing the link below.

How to take print out of shared calendar in Outlook 2003

A user has an option to delegate access to his calendar to edit, review, send, receive or modify meeting invites on his behalf to his sub ordinate. To know more about delegate access, please see the below article of mine on techulator.

How to delegate the access of an Outlook Calendar to another person in Outlook 2003 and 2010

The member who has been granted delegate access to their manager's calendar can also check free busy information and reminders in outlook to perform their duties easily.

You can know more about free busy information and reminders and their related troubleshooting in Outlook 2003 and 2010 versions in my other techulator articles by clicking the links below.

How to fix the issue if Outlook calendar and task reminders do not appear in Outlook 2003 and 2010

How to fix the issue when a user is unable to view free busy information in Outlook 2010

This is one of the features of outlook given by Microsoft.

This issue is encountered very frequently by IT Help Desk departments. It is a very common scenario and sometimes becomes difficult to fix it. This information would not only help the users but also would be useful for the technical support engineers who help their clients in such matters.

This article would also help the employees working in an organization to fix the issue themselves and support engineers too to help users when they don't get the proper troubleshooting steps while the user is on call. I am trying my best to make their job easy.

Please find steps defined below and the best practices practised by the top professionals in MNCs. I have given the steps for version 2003 and 2010.

This would also help the ones seeking job in IT as these are the frequently asked interview questions and I have tried to make it look very simple, east to remember and effective.

Please use the following steps to open a shared calendar and also to remove a shared calender user's name in Outlook 2003 and 2010

Outlook 2010

Step 1 - Open Outlook

Step 2 - Select Calendar

Step 3 - Select Open Calendar from the Top of the Navigation Panel.

Step 4 - To select another person's name from the address book, click Name or type the name in the Name box.

Note: Custom view settings on your calendar may not display correctly if you use the side-by-side calendars feature. To ensure that your custom view settings are displayed, right-click any calendar in the list, and then click Open on the shortcut menu. The calendar will open and close any other open calendars. The view settings for the selected calendar will be in effect and for any additional calendars subsequently viewed in the side-by-side view.

Step 5 - To remove a name from the Other Calendars, Other Contacts, or Other Tasks lists, right-click the name, and then click Remove from Other (Calendars, Contacts, or Tasks).

Outlook 2003

Step 1 - Open Outlook

Step 2 - Select Calendar

Step 3 - Right Click on Calendar and Scroll down to the Bottom of the pane, and there is a link titled "Open a Shared Calendar"

Step 4 - To select another person's name from the address book, click Name or type the name in the Name box.

Step 5 - The new calendar will appear to the side of any calendar already in the view.

Step 6 - To remove a name from the Other Calendars, Other Contacts, or Other Tasks lists, right-click the name, and then click Remove from Other (Calendars, Contacts, or Tasks).

Conclusion

Technical support engineers can use these simple steps to fix the issue and save First call resolution FCR and contribute their best experience to the customers in no time without having to forward the ticket to higher support levels and improve their team performance. Other users can fix their issues all by themselves by following these steps without calling the Help Desk or Support Engineers.

In short, practicing these simple steps to fix the issues in outlook would add value to the organization by saving the man power efforts of support departments which in turn would help the company to save revenue.

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