Outlook 2010 - Renaming/deleting default calendars and calendar groups

[Calum Veteran]

I installed the Office 2010 beta last night and have been playing around with Outlook - it is fantastic; however, there is one big annoyance... it doesn't seem to allow me to delete/rename certain calendars and calendar groups :blink:

I setup Outlook with one of my Windows Live IDs and my work's Exchange Server account. Once I'd done so, 2 calendars appeared under the 'My Calendars' group - 'Calendar' and 'Calum's Calendar'. The only way I found out which account each calendar belonged to was by right-clicking each one and selecting 'Properties'. The naming of both the calendars is odd, unhelpful and uninformative; it's also very disorganised and I do not like to be disorganised. Seriously, why would I rename one of my calendars 'Calum's Calendar' and the other 'Calendar'?

I have searched around for ways to rename/delete these calendars but it will not allow me to. For the time being, I have had to create 2 new calendars and link them to each account - just so I can name them what I wish. I have also had to create a new 'My calendars' group because Outlook will not allow me to rename 'My Calendars' to 'My calendars'.

Now, I am stuck with the default 'My Calendars' group with no way to rename/delete it. Yes, I can hide calendars in there (which is what I have done with the two default calendars it added) and I can also uncheck the box so calendars in the group do not show in the pane, but I cannot remove the group from the system so it is still there in the list :angry:

Does anybody know why Microsoft would limit us like this? Do they really believe that all customers will want to use the names they choose for our calendars and email accounts, especially when they name one 'Calendar' and the other 'Calum's Calendar'? :blink: Uhm... they are both my calendars...

I realise some may think I am sad or that I'm getting annoyed over something which is insignificant, but it is not insignificant to me because I despise disorganisation and inconsistency. I probably have some sort of OCD, but I would like my calendar management system to be organised and I cannot see any good reason for Microsoft to restrict us in this way. It's just shoddy software development, right?

[Jonny E]

I'm sorry to say I have not got a solution - but I am working on the problem! It is very annoying!

[LivinEZ]

If dealing with a Live.com account you can sign into the account online, go to the Calendar, click on the hyperlink for XXXX's Calendar And you can rename it to what you want. It will then auto sync with outlook to show the same :woot: