Special Edition Using® Microsoft® Office Outlook® 2003

Creating Appointments in the Calendar

There are several ways to create appointments. You can create appointments directly from the Calendar folder or you can create appointments using the appointment form. You can also use a function called AutoCreate to create appointments from existing items such as email messages or tasks.

The Calendar viewer, shown in Figure 12.1, has several distinct parts. There is the Navigation Pane, the appointment area, broken into 30-minute increments with a time bar on the left, an area for events at the top of the appointment area, a Date Navigator, and optionally, the TaskPad.

The appointment area enables you to see the day's appointments, add new appointments, and delete appointments. By default, the appointment ...