Can weekends be compressed in the month-view of the Outlook 2010 calendar?

[Madawc]

My workplace has just moved us all from Outlook 2003 to Outlook 2010. Some improvements, but I don't like the new calendar. Two particular points:

a) Multi-day events no longer extend across all the days to which they apply on the month-view.

b) There is no longer an option on the month-view to put Saturday and Sunday into a single column.

I've checked the obvious settings and can find no way to change these. Is there any way?

(I note also that the default is now 6 weeks, something I asked for when I was on Outlook 2003. In neither case does there seem to be a choice in the matter.)

Madawc Williams (East Anglia, UK). Using Crystal 2008 with SQL and Windows XP

 

[Madawc]

Update: it is now January and the calendar has shifted to show 5 weeks. I assume they've tweeked the software to show either 5 weeks or 6 depending on the current month, December 2012 extending across 6 calendar weeks. This in itself is fine, but they also must have decided not to let users adjust this, as well as taking away options like compressing weekends. Evidently they don't think that users of their brilliant software are not competent to know what's best for them.

Someone should tell them that there is intelligent life outside of Microsoft.

Madawc Williams (East Anglia, UK). Using Crystal 2008 with SQL and Windows XP