How to view or show multiple calendar months in Outlook Date Navigator?

Author: Siluvia Last Modified: 2025-04-14

By default, Outlook only shows one month calendar in the Date Navigator of To-Do Bar. For many Outlook users, they prefer to show more months in the Date Navigator for easily managing their jobs. The following tutorial will help you view more months in Date Navigator.

View more months by dragging the split bar in Outlook

View more months by changing the number of month rows in Outlook

View more months by dragging the split bar in Outlook

1. Put your cursor on the split bar between the "Date Navigator" and the "Reading Pane".

2. When the cursor turns to , please drag it to the left direction to show more months. See screenshot:

show more months

You can see the differences after dragging the split bar.

result 1

View more months by changing the number of month rows in Outlook

Besides the above method, you can view more months in Date Navigator by changing the number of month rows.

1. Right click on any blank place of Date Navigator, and then click "Options" from the list.

Options from the list

Or you can click "To-Do Bar" > "Options" under "View" tab. See screenshot:

the To-Do Bar button

2. In the "To-Do Bar Options" dialog box, type the number that you want to display how many months calendar in the "Number of month rows" box, and then click "OK" button.

the To-Do Bar Options dialog box

Then you can see more months are showing in the Date Navigator. See screenshot:

result 2

Notes:

1. The number of calendar months you will see depends on the size of Outlook main interface and your computer screen resolution.

2. The above two methods can be used together to show more months.

3. The above methods can work in Outlook 2010 and 2007.

4. In Outlook 2013, the number of calendar month is limited in Date Navigator. So you cannot view more months in Date Navigator of To-Do Bar through above two methods. But you can view more months in Calendar Navigation Pane with dragging the split bar.