10-minute units instead of 30 minutes: How to note your appointments even more accurately in your calendar

Do appointments seem to overlap in your Outlook calendar? The default 30-minute time scale may be hiding back-to-back meetings. The fix takes seconds: right-click the time scale on the left-hand edge and choose 10 minutes. Closely timed appointments then sit neatly below one another, and Outlook remembers your setting for next time. A simple way to make a busy day far easier to read.

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16 July 2025

10-minute units instead of 30 minutes: How to note your appointments even more accurately in your calendar

Berta L. asks:
I work a lot with my Outlook calendar and enter all my appointments. However, I would prefer a more detailed division than the 30-minute units I currently see. I would prefer to have the day divided into ten-minute increments. Where can I make this change?

Hiroshi Nakanishi answers:
Dear Ms. L., after installing Outlook, the calendar is set to 30 minutes. You can easily change this by right-clicking:

1. start Outlook and switch to the calendar. You ...