Office X for Macintosh: The Missing Manual

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What to Do with an Appointment

Once you’ve entrusted your agenda to Entourage, you can start putting it to work.

Microsoft Office is only too pleased to remind you (via pop-up messages) of your

events, to reschedule them, to print them out, and so on. Here are a few of the pos-

sibilities.

Editing Events

To edit a calendar event, open its event window either by double-clicking its name

on the calendar or by highlighting it and choosing File→Open Event (c-O). The

calendar event pops up in its window, exactly as shown in Figure 9-4. Alter any of its

settings as you see fit.

Tip: When changing only an appointment’s category, bypass the event dialog box. Instead, just Control-

click the appointment’s block or its name, and choose Categories from the resulting contextual menu.

You don’t have to bother with this, however, if all you want to do is reschedule an

event, as described next.

Rescheduling Events

If an event in your life gets rescheduled to a new date that’s currently visible on the

screen, then you can simply drag it to that new date to officially reschedule it (see

Figure 9-8).

Figure 9-8:

You can drag an appointment

vertically in its column to make it

later or earlier in the same day, or

horizontally to another date. If

you’ve invited people to an event

that you’re editing, Entourage asks

you if you want to send an update to

your invitees, so that they’re ...