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Colour categories in Calendar

It would be really useful for the Outlook colour categories to show in the Teams calendar. I rely heavily on these to make sense of my calendar with a large number of appointments and in the current release of calendar this will make me likely to still revert back to Outlook rather than use Teams for calendar management.

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  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Absolutely - great great loss from migrating from Outlook to Teams...needs to be fixed.

  • Pablo Piquerez commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I second Mike Parker's request, I also use and relay on Outlook Categories to help prioritize my Calendar,.

  • Justin commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Color or further visual tags etc would be huge for calendar users, I really like the Teams calendar for managing my access to meetings- but use categories heavily for org and visual deciders.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes, we need a method to categorize certain items on our calendar (color code would be best)

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Color makes things more manageable. I would really like to see that. Thanks for your consideration!

  • Glenn Kindel commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I would like ALL Outlook features to be available in Teams, but Color is definitely one that's needed if you are not going to give us everything.

  • Keith Eggeman commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is absolutely essential. I invested a lot of time setting up colors for Outlook meetings, and it is surprising that colors do not show up in Teams. There is an opportunity for Microsoft to better understand how its customers use their tools, particularly in the context of migrating a feature (e.g., calendaring) from one application to another.

  • reinstep commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Really hope this Outlook feature gets carried over SOON to Teams. We rely on this heavily at our corporate office of 45k employees.

  • noone commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Another example of the typical microsoft approach to programming: remove any useful feature (do you remember removing the "pause sync" in onedrive?), add a random bunch of features which normal people do not use. Get complaints and reintegrate some of the features (do you remember removing and adding pattern fills on power point?)

    I the responsible for removing colors was some random programmer who has never had more than birthdays on his outlook calendar.

    Be professional for once and hurry up to add this feature.

  • Rob commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes please - helpful with planning the day. Also limits switching between Outlook and Teams.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes please - absolutely necessary to be able to colour code different appointment types

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