Managing Appointments, Events, and Meetings in Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2007
- 1/3/2007
- Working in the Calendar Item Windows
- Scheduling and Changing Appointments
- Scheduling and Changing Events
- Scheduling, Updating, and Canceling Meetings
- Responding to Meeting Requests
- Key Points
Chapter at a Glance
In this chapter, you will learn to:
You might find that your Microsoft Office Outlook Calendar runs your life—but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing! Using the Calendar effectively can help you to stay organized, on task, and on time. You can schedule and track appointments, meetings, and events. Because Outlook 2007 maps your scheduled tasks to your calendar, you can look at your calendar in Day view or Week view to see the tasks that need to be completed that day or that week, and you can track your progress by marking tasks as complete when you finish them.
In this chapter, you will record different types of information in your Outlook calendar, scheduling an appointment and an event on your own calendar and then scheduling a meeting with another person. You will learn methods of determining meeting times during which other people are available. Then you will learn about responding to, updating, and canceling meeting requests.
Warning
Important No practice files are required to complete the exercises in this chapter. For more information about practice files, see Using the Companion CD at the beginning of this book.
Working in the Calendar Item Windows
We refer to the window in which you create or respond to an appointment as the appointment window, to a meeting as the meeting window, and to an event as the event window; collectively we refer to these windows as the calendar item windows. Like the contact and message windows, the calendar item windows contain their own commands, arranged on the new Office Ribbon instead of on menus and toolbars.
In this exercise, you will take a tour of the calendar item window elements that differ from the contact and message window elements discussed in earlier chapters, and you’ll learn about the differences between the types of calendar items. There are no practice files for this exercise.
In the Navigation Pane, click the Calendar button to display the Calendar module.
On the Standard toolbar, click the New Appointment button.
In the upper-left corner of the window, click the Microsoft Office Button.Commands related to managing appointments (such as creating, saving, deleting, and printing) are available from the Office menu that appears.
Click away from the Office menu to close it.
The appointment window commands are organized in groups on three tabs:
Appointment
Insert
Format Text
The Appointment tab is active by default. Buttons representing commands related to creating appointments are organized on this tab in four groups: Actions, Show, Options, and Proofing. You can create a simple appointment by using only the commands available on this tab.
Click the Insert tab.
Buttons representing commands related to items you can insert are organized on this tab in six groups: Include, Tables, Illustrations, Links, Text, and Symbols.
Click the Format Text tab.
Buttons representing commands related to the appearance of message content are organized on this tab in six groups: Clipboard, Font, Paragraph, Styles, Zoom, and Editing.
On the Appointment tab, in the Options group, click the Time Zones button.A new field displaying the time zone for each of the start and end times appears. With this useful Outlook 2007 feature, you can schedule an appointment that crosses time zones—for example, a flight from Los Angeles to New York.
In the Start time area, select the All day event check box.
Click the Event tab.
In the Start time area, clear the All day event check box to change the event to an appointment.
In the Actions group, click the Invite Attendees button.
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An untitled appointment window opens.
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Warning
Important Depending on your screen resolution and the size of the appointment window that opens, you might see more or fewer buttons in each of the groups, or the buttons you see might be represented by larger or smaller icons than those shown in this book. Experiment with the size of the appointment window to understand the effect on the appearance of the Ribbon.
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Thewindow changes from an appointment window to an event window. The contents of the Format Text and Inserttabs don’t change, but an Event tab replaces the Appointment tab.
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The Event tab contents are nearly identical to the Appointment tab contents—the only change is that on the Event tab, in the Options group, by default your time is shown as Free rather than Busy, and the reminder is set to display 18 hours prior to the event rather than 15 minutes.
The window changes from an appointment window to a meeting window. The contents of the Format Text and Insert tabs don’t change, but a Meeting tab that includes one additional group, Attendees, replaces the Appointment tab:
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The meeting request header includes a To field in addition to the standard Subject and Location fields. You can invite attendees by entering them in the To field or by clicking the Scheduling button in the Show group.