Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual

What to Do with an Appointment

Once you’ve entrusted your agenda to Entourage, you can start putting it to work. Microsoft Entourage is only too pleased to remind you (via Office Reminders) of your events, to reschedule them, to print them out, and so on. Here are a few of the possibilities.

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 (⌘-O) or pressing Return. The calendar event pops up in its window, exactly as shown in Figure 11-4. 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 shortcut menu. (Or select an event and use the Categories button’s pop-up menu in the toolbar.) Click a category to assign the event to that category. Note that it’s perfectly OK for an event to have more than one category. You can unassign an existing category by clicking it again.

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 11-8).

Tip

If you’d like to duplicate an event—if you had so much fun having lunch with that old flame that you’d like to do the ...