Dates - Do you use Calendar controls effectively?
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In Outlook, the Calendar control has a number of important features:
- Saturday and Sunday are displayed at the end
- Days that have data associated with them are bold
- The current day is highlighted with a box
Users are familiar with the Outlook calendar control. When the calendar control is used it should incorporate all of these features of the Outlook calendar control.
❌ Figure: Bad example - Calendar Control - Sunday is at the front, today's date is not highlighted, and items with data are not bolded
✅ Figure: Good example - Calendar Control - Monday is at the front, today's date is highlighted, and items with data are bolded