CIS—100 Chapter 14—Outlook 1

Your Calendar 2 1. Click Day, Week, or Month to quickly switch views. 2. Forward and Back buttons allow you to easily move through your calendar. 3. More buttons let you show or hide days or detail, depending on your view.

Appointments, Meetings, Events, and Tasks 3 You will have to understand the difference between an appointment, meeting, event, and task before you can accurately use the Outlook calendar.

Appointment 4 An appointment is an activity that involves only you, at a scheduled time.

Meeting 5 A meeting occurs at a scheduled time, like an appointment. The difference is that you invite other people by using a meeting request that is sent via .

Event 6 Event: An event is an activity that lasts all day long. Unlike an appointment or meeting, an event does not block out time in your calendar. With an event, you can still have other entries appear in your schedule for that day.

Task 7 Task: A task is an activity that involves only you, and that does not need a scheduled time. New to Outlook 2007 is an area in your calendar's Day and Week views that shows tasks.

Appointments 8 1. Rest the pointer over the desired time in your calendar and click. 2. Type the details. 3. Need more time for your appointment? Simply drag the handle to make the appointment longer.

Meetings 9 1. The location of the meeting 2. The meeting organizer's name

Events 10 Use an event when you want to enter an activity on a specific day without letting it clutter up all of that day's time slots in your calendar.

Tasks 11 You will see the Tasks area when you look at the calendar in Day or Week view.

Reoccurring Activities 12 To tell Outlook that an appointment, meeting, or event occurs on a regular basis, simply use the Recurrence feature. The frequency of the activity is called its recurrence pattern.

Setting up Reoccurances 13 To set up a recurrence pattern, open the appointment and click the Recurrence button in the Options group of the Appointment tab.

Opening a Reoccurring Activity 14 In order to make changes to reoccurring events you will need to differentiate between one single occurrence and a series of occurrences.

Open this Occurrence 15 Choose this option when you want to see or change one instance, not the entire series. On one particular day, for example, you might want to exercise a half-hour later than usual, without changing the usual time.

Open the Series 16 Choose this option when you want to see or change the entire series — if, for example, you decided to shift all instances of your "Exercise" appointment by half an hour.

Changing a Recurrence Pattern 17 After the series is open, to change its recurrence pattern, click the Recurrence button on the Appointment tab, shown below.

Reminders Double-click the appointment to open it. 2. Choose the reminder time. 3. A reminder appears at the specified time.

Colored Categories 19 You can use colors to make certain entries stand out at a glance.

Using Colors Continued 20 The border color of a calendar entry indicates whether that time is scheduled as free, tentative, or out of office. You can see the border color in your own calendar and you can change it.