Microsoft® Office System Step by Step -- 2003 Edition

Scheduling Appointments and Events

Adding your time commitments to a calendar can help you manage your daily schedule. You can use Outlook’s Calendar to schedule appointments (which typically last just part of a day) or events (which typically last all day long). For example, you might create an appointment in your Outlook Calendar for the time you will spend seeing your doctor, and you might schedule an event for an all-day seminar you plan to attend. Both appointments and events can be recurring, meaning they occur repeatedly at regular intervals—for example, daily, weekly, or monthly. You can specify a subject and location for each Calendar item as well as the date and time. You can indicate your availability as available, tentative, busy, ...