Understanding the Outlook Calendar

At its heart, the Outlook Calendar stores and displays appointments. An appointment is just what it sounds like—a scheduled event with a title and a time and date specified for the beginning and end of the event. Outlook distinguishes between two types of appointments:

  • A regular appointment has a specific start time and stop time. It is usually on the same day but does not have to be.

  • An all-day event does not have specific start and stop times but rather takes up all of one or more days.

Scheduling appointments may not sound so special, and in fact it’s not. But it’s the way that Outlook lets you organize, use, and share your appointments that makes the Calendar so useful.

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