Click on your calendar to create an entry
November 8 2006 09:06:29 AM
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Rather than clicking on one of the "Schedule a Meeting" or "New" buttons...
You can create a calendar entry by clicking directly on the calendar when at the time you want the event to occur. For example, if I click on my calendar at 10 am
a new entry is created, with 10:00 am as the start time.
The entry type (appointment) and duration (1 hour) are filled in automatically based on settings defined in your calendar preferences. So if you mainly create meetings and you want them to be 30 minutes long by default, you can configure your preferences that way, and all new events you create will use those values as the defaults, a real time saver versus having to change them each time.
Similarly, you can change the day/time or the duration of a meeting via drag and drop in the calendar views as well.
Here is an extra tip. Last week I blogged about Calendar Display vs. Free Time Search. Via feedback in the comments section of that entry (and subsequent emails back and forth) I learned something new. If you are working in either the Week view, Two Week view, or Month view AND you do not have "Show Time Slots" selected...
Then when you click on a day to quickly create a calendar entry, the default start time is selected based on the starting time of your scheduling preferences for that day of the week.
Thanks for the tip Fabian, I always like to learn new things! This type of interaction with readers is one of the things I really enjoy about blogging.
You can create a calendar entry by clicking directly on the calendar when at the time you want the event to occur. For example, if I click on my calendar at 10 am
a new entry is created, with 10:00 am as the start time.
The entry type (appointment) and duration (1 hour) are filled in automatically based on settings defined in your calendar preferences. So if you mainly create meetings and you want them to be 30 minutes long by default, you can configure your preferences that way, and all new events you create will use those values as the defaults, a real time saver versus having to change them each time.
Similarly, you can change the day/time or the duration of a meeting via drag and drop in the calendar views as well.
Here is an extra tip. Last week I blogged about Calendar Display vs. Free Time Search. Via feedback in the comments section of that entry (and subsequent emails back and forth) I learned something new. If you are working in either the Week view, Two Week view, or Month view AND you do not have "Show Time Slots" selected...
Then when you click on a day to quickly create a calendar entry, the default start time is selected based on the starting time of your scheduling preferences for that day of the week.
Thanks for the tip Fabian, I always like to learn new things! This type of interaction with readers is one of the things I really enjoy about blogging.
