New Outlook and Overlay Calendars

Question

I am trying out the new Outlook and it seems to be much less in functionality and user interfact than the old Outlook.

MY ISSUE IS:

1. My situation is this. I have 3 businesses, each with a seperate E-Mail address and calendar. In the old outlook, I used the calendar and had all (3) three of my calendars overlay onto 1 calendar view, then I have my CFO's shared calendar up beside my 3 that are overlayed into 1 calendar. The end result was I had 2 calendars showing on my screen. (1 was my 3 overlayed on top of each other and then my CFO's calendar as the second one to view)
2. The old outlook would allow me to SELECT WHICH CALENDARS I WANTED TO OVERLAY ON TOP OF EACH OTHER AT MY CHOICE.

THIS SEEMS TO BE MISSING FROM THE NEW OUTLOOK OR I CANNOT FIND IT. It seems in the new outlook we can overlay them all or none of them.

Is this a flaw in the design of the new outlook or am I not finding the easy way to do this.

Can you please answer this?

Answer 1

Hello Mike Tetterton,

Thank you for reaching out to the Microsoft Community. I apologize for any inconvenience you're experiencing with the new Outlook.

Based on your description, I understand your concern about viewing multiple calendars in a single view and the overlay calendars feature in the new Outlook.

After reviewing the scenario and checking the available options, I regret to inform you that, at this moment, it isn't feasible in the new Outlook. It appears that the new Outlook has a different approach to managing multiple calendars compared to the old version, which seems to be a design limitation currently.

Please note that Outlook is continuously evolving, and new features and settings may be added in future updates. Keep an eye out for any announcements or changes that might address this issue directly.

Reference: Things to look forward to in the new Outlook for Windows - Microsoft Community Hub

I also believe that some specific configuration or settings options should be developed under the Outlook application, I do understand your concerns about how it can help you be more productive in your busy daily work schedule, but since it's related Microsoft 365 product services and features option under product design, I believe that the related product team can develop some convenient configuration based on customer requests.

Therefore, Microsoft recommend submitting feedback by going in Ideas · Community (microsoft.com)

This community team and the Microsoft product development team are separate. Therefore, for features suggestions or design queries, users need to submit feedback to the Microsoft product design team from their side. Once a user sends feedback through the above means, it will sent directly to Microsoft and routed to the relevant product team so that can review it to do specific development in different OS devices.

To see more details on how to submit feedback, see this article Learn how to provide feedback to Microsoft - Microsoft 365 adminsMicrosoft Learning.

I hope I have provided you with all the required process information for this current scenario. If you need any further information from our side, please feel free to do so.

I would really appreciate your precious time. Thank you again for your kind cooperation.

Have a good day.

Sincerely Feroz Mahmud | Microsoft Community Moderator