The Outlook team has a tradition of putting calendar diagrams in their OOF messages to try and help clarify the date ranges. In a recent mail to an Outlook-heavy DL, about 50% of the OOF messages I got back contained these mini OOF calendars, so they must find them helpful.
I asked if it was a new-fangled feature in O14, but in fact they do it by hand! (I wonder if they book vacation time for hand-crafting the OOF message.)
If you’re interested in doing the same thing (but a little less painfully,) you can use a PowerShell script: Show-Calendar.ps1.
By the way, I’ll be OOF December 6th through December 7th, returning December 8th.
[C:\Users\leeholm]
PS:1 > Show-Calendar -HighlightDay (6..7) -HighlightDate 12/8/2008
December 2008
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
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30 1 2 3 4 5 [ 6]
[ 7] * 8* 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31 1 2 3