Outlook Calendar Appointment Slots

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How to change time increments of calendars in Outlook?

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On the Appointment tab, in the Actions group, click the Save & Close button. Display the calendar in the Day, Work Week, or Week arrangement of the Calendar view. Do either of the following in the calendar pane: In the calendar, click the time slot at the appointment start time on the day of the appointment.

When you display calendars in the Day/Work Week/Week/Schedule View in Outlook, the default time increment are 30 minutes. For special works, it may requires to place more/less space for calendar details. Therefore, you need to change the time increments of calendars in Microsoft Outlook.

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Change time increments of calendars with Time Scale feature

In Outlook 2010 and 2013, it quite easy to change the time increment of a specified calendar with the Time Scale feature.

Step 1: Shift to the Calendar view, and click to open the calendar you will change its time increment.

Step 2: Change calendar’s view with going to the View tab, next clicking the Change View > Calendar, and then clicking the Day button, Work Week button, Week button or Schedule View button.

Step 3: Then specify a time increment from the drop down list of Time Scale on the View tab.

Note: This method does not work in Outlook 2007.

Change time increments of calendars with right clicking

Another easy way to change the time increment of a specified calendar is with right clicking.

Step 1: Open the calendar and show it in the Day/Work Week/Week/Schedule View.

  1. In Outlook 2007, click the View > Current View > Day/Week/Month, and then click the Day button or Month button above the opened calendar.
  2. In Outlook 2010 and 2013, go to the View tab, next click the Change View > Calendar, and then click the Day button, Work Week button, Week button or Schedule View button.

Step 2: Right click the time scales area in the calendar, and then specify a time increment from the right-clicking menu. See screen shots below:


Time scales in Schedule View

Time Scales in Day View

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Change time increments of calendars with configuring other settings

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There is a third method that can help you change the time increment of a specified calendar in Microsoft Outlook.

Step 1: Shift to the Calendar view, and click to open the specified calendar that you will change its time increment.

Step 2: Show the calendar in the Day/Work Week/Week/Schedule View.

  1. In Outlook 2007, click the View > Current View > Day/Week/Month, and then click the Day button or Month button above the opened calendar.
  2. In Outlook 2010 and 2013, go to the View tab, next click the Change View > Calendar, and then click the Day button, Work Week button, Week button or Schedule View button.

Step 3: Click the View Settings button on the View tab (or click the View > Current View > Customize Current View in Outlook 2007).

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Step 4: In the popping up Advanced View Settings dialog box, please click the Other Settings button.

Step 5: Then the format Calendar dialog box comes out. Please click the Time scale box and select a time increment from the drop down list.

Step 6: Click all OK buttons to exit each dialog box.

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You can use Google Calendar’s Appointment Slots function to create appointments that other users can book. For example, faculty can create office-hour or class-presentation appointment slots that students can then book themselves. This function creates an additional view of your calendar that only shows the available appointment slots. Visitors can then click on a time slot to book it. Then once a time is booked, the time is filled in and unbookable by others.

Note: Appointment Slots are currently only available to Google Apps users (i.e., not to personal Gmail users). Users must be signed in with their Daemen email to access the appointment slots.

There are several things you can do with appointment slots:

  • Setting up appointment slots
  • Adding others to the appointment
  • Inviting others to book appointments

Setting Up Appointment Slots

  1. Go to Google Calendar.
  2. Click on the date you want to set the appointment slots for.
  3. In the event box, click “Appointment slots”. Enter the event title, time frame, and slot duration then click save. For example: If you select the time as “9am-11am” and with “slots with duration of 30 minutes” then 4 appointment slots would be createdeach lasting 30 minutes during that time period.

4. Once saved, click on the appointment to edit the event and add additional details like location or description.

Adding Others to the Appointments


Adding others to the appointments is not the same as inviting them to book an appointment. When adding someone to the appointments, they will be invited to every appointment so only add people who will be assisting with all the appointments (i.e. – if it is for an Office or Department, you may want to add others in the office so they can see the appointments).

  1. Click on the appointment slots and select “Edit”. Enter their username in the “Add Guests” field (to the right).

Inviting Others To Book Appointments

You must set up the actual appointment slots before others can book them.

  1. Go to Google Calendar.
  2. Click the appointment slot event on the calendar, then click on “Go to appointment page for this calendar”.
  3. Copy the calendar’s appointment page link found at the top of the page.
  4. Email this link to people looking to book an appointment.

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Updated on August 7, 2020

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