iPad For Dummies, 10th Edition

Chapter 12

People, Places, and Appointments

IN THIS CHAPTER

Understanding Calendar’s different views and functions

Mingling with contacts

We hate to break the news to you, but your iPad isn’t only for fun and games; it has a serious side. The iPad can remind you of appointments and help you keep all your contacts straight.

Working with the Calendar

The Calendar program lets you keep on top of your appointments and events (birthdays, anniversaries, and the like). You open it by tapping the Calendar icon on the Home screen. The icon is smart in its own right because it changes daily, displaying the day of the week and the date.

You can display five calendar views: by year, by month, by day, by week, and by a searchable list view that shows current and future appointments.

Tap one of the four tabs at the top of the screen — Day, Week, Month, or Year — to choose a view. There’s a Today button in the lower-left corner of the screen, which returns you to the current date in any view. (Also at the bottom of the screen are the Calendars button and Inbox button, which we get to shortly.)

To get to list view, tap the search icon — a little magnifying glass — in the upper-right corner of the screen.

We take a closer look at these views in the following sections.

Year view

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