Office 2013 In Depth

Scheduling Meetings

This chapter has already discussed communicating with your Outlook contacts and taking various actions related to a contact or contacts: We’ve looked at sending messages to contacts and using other methods of communicating with your contacts, such as task assignments and instant messaging. You can also schedule meetings quickly and efficiently using the information in your Contacts folder. Because scheduling meetings also relates to the Outlook Calendar, you can sort out who is available for a particular meeting using the Scheduling Assistant. In environments that enable you to share calendars on the network, such as an Exchange Server or SharePoint environment, you can accurately tell when a contact is available and when ...