How to switch between schedule view and vertical view in Outlook calendar?

Author Siluvia Last modified 2025-04-07

In Outlook 2010 and 2013, you can switch the vertical to schedule layout when you select 5 or more calendars and will switch back to the vertical view when only one calendar is selected by default. If you have three calendars in your Outlook and you want to display them in schedule layout, you can switch between schedule view and vertical layout manually or automatically with the following article shown.

Manually switch between schedule view and vertical view

Automatically switch between schedule view and vertical view

Manually switch between schedule view and vertical view

Supposing you have three calendars with the Month view displayed vertically side by side, you can quickly switch this view to schedule layout by clicking the "Schedule View" command, see screenshots:

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Note: You can also click the "Schedule View" command to change the vertical layout to schedule view under the Day / Work Week / Week view.

Automatically switch between schedule view and vertical view

For automatically switching between schedule view and vertical view, please do as follows.

1. Click "File" > "Options".

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2. In the "Outlook Options" dialog box, please do as follows.

1). Click "Calendar" in the left bar, and go to the "Display options" section;

2). To auto switch from vertical layout to schedule view, please check the "Automatically switch from vertical layout to schedule view when the number of displayed calendars is greater than or equal to" box and change the number to the one you need;

3). To auto switch from schedule view to vertical layout, check the "Automatically switch from schedule view to vertical layout when the number of displayed calendar is fewer than or equal to" box, and change the number to the one you need;

4). Click the "OK" button. See screenshot:

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Note: In this case, I change the numbers of these two boxes to 3 and 2 separately.

From now on, when I select 3 or more calendars, Outlook calendar will switch to schedule view automatically. And it will return to vertical layout when the number of displayed calendars is equal to or fewer than 2.