Published January 25, 2022
Author: Ash Khan

Office 365 email users will soon be able to add some colour to their office calendars due to a new upgrade to the service. 

Outlook online users will soon be able to alter the colour of the events in their calendar application, allowing them to not only brighten up the display but also create greater differentiation and insight into their working week, according to an upcoming update. 

As per the published article in the Microsoft 365 roadmap, customers of the email service will be allowed to choose custom colours for their calendar events by utilizing hexadecimal numbers, RBG values, or colour picker control. 

The upgrade is still in progress, but Microsoft known for Microsoft Teams expects it to be released in February this year. It will initially be accessible solely to online users, but it may soon be made accessible elsewhere. 

The change brings Office 365 email up to pace with several of its main competitors, like Google Calendar, which also allows users to pick a variety of different colours for meetings. 

Microsoft has released a number of important Outlook upgrades in recent months in order to help folks who are adopting the hybrid working lifestyle. 

With the advent of spelling and grammatical checks for its Outlook on a smartphone, this contains a feature that will assist users to remove errors from their communications. 

Another upgrade will allow employees to put a notification indicating where they are working, whether it be at home, the workplace, or elsewhere. 

In August last year, Google Calendar acquired a similar function, enabling users to mark where they will be working, with the options of a home, workplace, or a specified other location. 

Users may also construct a weekly working location schedule if they want to work in the office on some days and work remotely on others, which can be altered at any moment if the situation changes. There’s no word on whether Microsoft’s Office 365’s email upgrade will be doing the same, but we’re hoping so. 

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