Change the background color of your calendar - Outlook

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Change the background color of your calendar

Applies to: Microsoft Office Outlook 2003

You can specify the background color of your calendar both within Microsoft Outlook and if you save your calendar to a Web site.

Do one of the following:

Show Change the background color

On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click Calendar Options.
Under Calendar options, in the Background color list, click the color that you want.

Notes

The color that you choose is applied to the Day and Work Week views. Week and Month views use system background colors, which are gray and white, by default.
The color that you choose is applied to weekday hours. A darker shade of the background color is applied to night and weekend hours.

Show Specify a background for a calendar saved to the Web

In Calendar, on the File menu, click Save as Web Page.
Under Options, select the Use background graphic check box, and then type the path to the graphic, or click Browse to choose the path.