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Although the most common calendar intervals are 15 minutes and 30 minutes, you can also change the time scale interval of your calendar to 5, 6, 10, or 60 minutes.

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Note: If the steps under this New Outlook tab don't work, you may not be using new Outlook for Windows yet. Select Classic Outlook and follow those steps instead.

To change the time scale interval of your calendar in new Outlook for Windows:

  1. In the calendar, select the View tab.

  2. Select Time scale, and then select the grid interval from the drop-down list.

    Screenshot showing Time scale under View tab with 30 minutes selected

To change your Time Scale in classic Outlook for Windows:

  1. In Calendar, select the View tab. Be sure you've selected Day, Work Week or Week view in the Arrangement group.

  2. Select Time Scale, and then select the grid interval that you want to show in the calendar.

To change the time scale interval of your calendar in the web versions of Outlook:

  1. In the calendar, select the View tab.

  2. Select Time scale, and then select the grid interval from the drop-down list.

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