Tip 205Send Somebody a Listing of your Forthcoming Events

Ever wanted to send somebody a text listing of the things you’re doing over the coming week/month so they can work out when best to schedule a meeting with you?

It’s easily done. Just open Calendar, switch to week/month view (and navigate to the relevant date, of course), hit Ctrl+A to select all the events, and press Ctrl+C to copy them to the clipboard. You’ll be warned in the case of recurring events that you’re only copying the events that fall in that week/month, but this is fine. Then start a new email, document, or IM conversation and hit Ctrl+V to paste a listing of all the appointments that you viewed within Calendar, neatly sorted by date and time, and with complete descriptions. ...

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