Learn Office 2011 for Mac OS X

Chapter 24. Managing Your Calendar

In this chapter, you'll look at how to use Outlook to schedule your appointments and keep your calendar in order.

First, you'll meet the Calendar interface, learn to display the dates you want, and customize the calendar settings. I'll discuss the different types of time commitments Outlook uses—appointments, events, and meetings—and then I'll show you how to use the Calendar's different views.

After that, we'll go through how to create one-shot appointments (or events) and ones that repeat on a regular schedule. Finally, we'll look at how you use Outlook to schedule meetings and how you respond to meeting invitations you receive.

Meeting the Calendar Interface

To get started working with the Calendar, click the ...