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Tuesday, February 23, 2016 11:55 AM | 10 votes
I don't necessarily think this is an Exchange problem, but Microsoft Support Engineer Vardhaman Shetti told me to post over here in the Exchange forums, because he couldn't reproduce the problem on an IMAP connection and I happen to be connected to two Exchange servers on my primary machines (my desktop and laptop) and one Exchange Server on another (my wife's laptop). Exchange Servers in all cases are Exchange 2013.
However, I also don't have never seen the problem in Outlook 2010 or 2013 (any previous version of Outlook), and in the case of the Outlook 2013 computers, they were even connected to the same Exchange Servers. This problem is unique to Outlook 2016 (through the current released version, updated earlier this month) and it's purely a display problem, but it happens on all 3 of the computers I've tested (all 3 are also Windows 10, I also have access to other systems, but they're stilling running Windows 7 and Outlook 2013, and don't have the problem):
The Folder Pane in Outlook 2016 doesn't hold its width properly when switching to the Calendar View from the Mail View, if the Reading Pane is also open/active in the Calendar view. In fact, it always shrinks to a width that is too narrow to display the full calendar width in the little mini calendars at the top of the Folder Pane and that only fits 2 of the icons at the bottom (Mail and Calendar, People and Tasks are only reachable by clicking the ... or manually making the Folder Pane wider again. Making the folder pane wider again works fine, until the next time I switch from Mail to Calendar view. Also, this problem is ONLY with the Calendar View. The Folder Pane in all other views (Mail, People, and Tasks) always work fine.
To reproduce, go to the Calendar view and be sure both the Folder Pane (leftmost pane) and Reading View are visible in Outlook 2016, both of which you can turn on via the View tab of the Ribbon Bar. Both of these panes should also be visible in the Mail view, which I think is the default. I also happen to use the Week view on the Calendar (not sure if that matters). Go to the Calendar view, adjust the width of the Folder Pane to show every day of the week on the calendars at the top of the pane and all main Navigation icons at the bottom (Mail, Calendar, People, Tasks). Then click on the Mail icon at the bottom left of the screen, then back to the Calendar. After this, 100% of the time for all 3 of my Windows 10 computers, the Folder Pane has shrunken to only be wide enough to show Sunday - Friday (no Saturday) on the calendars and only two of the icons (Mail and Calendar) in the links at the bottom.
Note that a weird work-around is to simply not switch to Calendar directly from Mail. If you instead switch to People or Tasks, then switch to Calendar, the Folder Pane width will be preserved. The problem ONLY occurs if switching from Mail to Calendar, and when doing that it happens 100% of the time for me.
I have also tested and confirmed that the OS screen and zoom settings don't matter. At least having the screen size be 100% or 125% both exhibit exactly the same behavior.
Any ideas? Very frustrating to have to constantly re-adjust the width of the Folder Pane on the Calendar view or disable the Reading Pane to use Outlook
Colin
All replies (32)
Tuesday, February 23, 2016 11:58 AM
One other recent discovery that does affect this: I have the To Do bar on in the Mail view and off in the Calendar view. If I turn off the To Do bar in Mail, the problem also goes away.
Colin
Wednesday, February 24, 2016 10:00 AM
Jim-Xu just moved this from the Exchange 2013 forum to here, but this has nothing to do with Outlook 2013. The problem only occurs in Outlook 2016.
Colin
Wednesday, March 2, 2016 10:15 PM | 4 votes
Jim-Xu can you please move that issue and escalate it. It's happening on a lot of Outlook 2016 installations and it is really annoying.
Not only because I can only see 6 days instead of 7 on the Calendar view but more because the right arrow is hidden so I can't move to the next month easily.
Sunday, May 15, 2016 6:35 AM
I am having the exact same problem! I just noticed it tonight, which means it has only been happening fairly recently. Same 'Saturday' missing. Extremely irritating, especially knowing there is an icon that pops up when the cursor is right over the border of the list of monthly calendars to indicate that I want to move it--it just doesn't do anything.
I have, however, been able to adjust it successfully if I stretch the screen over to my second monitor (something I have no intention of keeping on there!). However, when I snap it back to my main monitor, it goes right back.
Monday, June 27, 2016 4:14 PM | 2 votes
Has there been any movement on this issue? I'm having the same problem and all of my searches keep turning up this thread replicated across multiple sites.
Monday, June 27, 2016 9:57 PM | 11 votes
I can confirm it still occurs for me (just tested right now).
One work-around that completely stops it is to turn off the Reading Pane on the View tab of the Ribbon Bar for the Calendar. I hate this solution, because I like using the reading pane to see the details of any entry on the calendar, but hate the way this bug garbles the view more, so I just shut off the Reading Pane on the calendar.
Colin
Wednesday, September 14, 2016 8:31 PM | 1 vote
Having same problem!
Wednesday, September 14, 2016 8:34 PM | 4 votes
Turning off the reading pane in calendar helped me as well.
Tuesday, October 18, 2016 1:26 PM | 1 vote
I have a different solution.
I had turned off Compact Navigation so instead of icons I had the words Mail, Calendar, People, etc. at the bottom.
When I switched back to icons (Turning back on Compact Navigation under Navigation Options) I was able to resize the Folder pane to include Saturday even with the Right Reading Pane on.
Monday, November 21, 2016 2:43 PM | 1 vote
Thank you for posting this problem. My calendar on the calendar tab in the folder-view column also is problematic only in Outloook 2016. There is no Saturday showing! I look forward to a fix when MS can work on this.
-DiaToday
Wednesday, January 11, 2017 3:30 PM | 3 votes
It has been mentioned, but it did work for me. Below are the steps that I took.
Turning on the "To-Do Bar" in the Mail options, switching to Calendar, adjusting the width of the folder panel, returning to Mail and turning of the "To-Do Bar" (if you want to).
Hope this helps others.
~Joe Z.
Tuesday, January 17, 2017 4:22 PM
This worked for me. However, its been over a year and not understanding why it still has not been corrected.
Tuesday, January 31, 2017 7:01 PM
I have the same issue on all of my computers and have not been able to find a solution. Looking forward to Microsoft fixing this as the above semi-solution didn't work for me.
Monday, March 27, 2017 2:56 AM | 1 vote
Same problem. This post is over a year old. Why hasn't this bug been fixed yet?!?
Wednesday, March 29, 2017 5:07 PM
Bless you. This was driving me crazy! I didn't realize I HAD a reading pane turned on in the calendar; I thought all the white space on the right was related to the width/spacing problem. Definitely an irritating bug.
Friday, April 21, 2017 2:39 PM
Heck yeah. This was driving me crazy as well. Thanks to this posting I was able to get relief. Aggravating !!
Monday, May 15, 2017 7:46 PM | 1 vote
"I didn't realize I HAD a reading pane turned on in the calendar;" Same for me. This has been drivng me crazy since i got MS Office 365. Closing the pane seem to have worked for me. Thanks for the help.
Thursday, July 20, 2017 3:39 PM | 2 votes
Thanks to whomever first posted the solution; turning off the reading pane on the side helped. Much like JohnD-H, I didn't even know this was enabled. Quick experimentation indicates that if you really want the reading pane, the Folder Pane will not resize to a size that is too small if the reading pane is on the bottom. If the reading pane is on the right: problems.
For me, the reading pane isn't necessary if I hover over the calendar entry--it gives me just about everything short of access to any embedded files in the calendar entry. For those, I just open it.
To be sure, it would be better if Microsoft could build in a minimum folder pane width, and that everything else would be automatically sized in relation to that. But I couldn't find any option like that to make the reading pane width "stick."
I didn't try Edukatid1's solution (see above) because I don't need the reading pane, but I would give that a try if you do.
Monday, July 24, 2017 7:25 PM | 1 vote
Problem persists with new Office 360 Outlook 2016. I can not see the entire width of the left-side folder bar in Calendar. The word "Appointments" is truncated after the "e" and "SA" is missing from from display of weekdays.
J G Brey
Wednesday, July 26, 2017 9:16 AM | 2 votes
It's really amazing, that Microsoft haven't fixed this issue yet, and is not even responding to this tread!
This issue is really annoying!
I found that I can set the width when in the Mail tab, shifting to Calendar will resize it to not usable, but shifting first to Contacts or Tasks and then to Calendar makes it usable. Really annoying!
If anyone know any buttons that can get Microsoft to fix this it would be much appreciated!
Sunday, August 6, 2017 1:39 AM
I've wasted five hours of my life because of this problem ....please MS save a life and fix this bugger
Thursday, November 16, 2017 10:05 PM | 1 vote
In order to extend the folder Pane you must turn the READING PANE OFF. I am not sure why, because I am not a programmer with MS for the product, but it seems the screen locks the READING PANE to a MINIMUM and the FOLDER PANE to a MAXIMUM when the READING PANE is activated. Not sure if this is the intent but to me it seems to be programming mistake. The FOLDER PANE should be set to a minimum, same as the READING PANE, and then an algorithm should determine how big could they be extended based on minimum size defined for the MESSAGES PANE (proportional to the monitor size).
Thursday, November 30, 2017 10:42 PM
You are a genius, this trick worked! I tried searching everywhere and watched several video. Apparently a bug in Outlook.
Tuesday, February 6, 2018 12:03 PM | 2 votes
2018 and problem is still there. "Great" job MS ...
Saturday, March 17, 2018 11:02 PM
I have the same problem.
Tuesday, June 5, 2018 3:03 PM
One workaround is to open a second calendar window by right mousing over the calendar icon and click 'Open in New Window'. This second window will allow resizing of the left pane (with 'reading pane' open).
Tuesday, July 3, 2018 10:29 AM
the answer of Roady there (see citation below) also helps here, if and only if you not only adjust the main outlook window size as described in citation below, but also the main outlook window folder pane width, before you open the secondary window (calendar) for following the procedure described below
"Change the window state of your main Outlook window from Maximized to normal. Resize this window to your liking. Now open a new Outlook window and resize this to your liking as well. Close this window and then close the main Outlook window. These sizes should be remembered now."
Just a workaround, of course, but hey... ;-) it seems to help
Cheers
Jörg
Wednesday, July 25, 2018 3:49 PM | 1 vote
Disabling the "Reading Pane" under the "View" tab in the Calendar fixed this issue for me.
Friday, August 17, 2018 12:58 PM
Thanks a lot booZey! Worked fine here as well!
Monday, November 12, 2018 6:39 PM | 1 vote
Office 265, Outlook 2016...
- In calendar view, click View, then Reading Pane > Off
- Resize the Navigation Window to widen it so that Saturday is Showing
- click View > Reading Pane > Right
This worked for me to sort of "reset" the navigation window width. After this I was able to see the entire month in the navigation window, and still have my reading pane.
Sunday, January 27, 2019 1:51 PM | 1 vote
Disabling the "Reading Pane" under the "View" tab in the Calendar fixed this issue for me.
Also changing the location of the Reading Pane can fix this. If you set it to Below instead of Right, also fixes, but neither is a particularly appealing work-around. Microsoft should fix this. For anyone else having this problem, please report through UserVoice and the MS Feedback Hub built into Windows.
This is so clearly a bug in Outlook, incredibly surprising it's been an issue for the lifespan of Office 2016 and still exists in Outlook 2019 (and Office 365).
Colin
Wednesday, August 28, 2019 12:43 PM
Hello, I realize this is an old post, but I wanted to post here in case someone stumbled across this. I fixed this problem in the calendar view by
- resizing the calendar view to be as small as possible (Note, I have the reading pane open).
- When I did that, I was able to resize the navigation pane.
- After that, I put the calendar view back where I wanted it and the nav pane stayed.
Voila! You don't need to abandon your reading pane.