From handy shortcuts to their favorite calendar apps, listen in to learn 5 tips that will make you more productive when scheduling and reviewing how you spend your days and weeks. Zack, Thanh, and Mike revisit the ever-important subject of using and mastering your calendar. TPS77: 5 Tips to Master Your Calendar.

(This works with all Outlook items, not just the Calendar.) Figure A When copying from the Clipboard into an appointment, you can bypass a few clicks. Outlook will open a new appointment window complete with the content you copied to the Clipboard, defaulting to the current or selected day, as shown in Figure A. Then, anywhere in Calendar view, press +V to paste. Simply copy the content to the Clipboard from its source to the Clipboard (using +C). What you might not know is that you don't need to open a new appointment window first. 21 Apple Mail tips and tricks you may not have known for iOS and macOS Mac.If you have content in a non-Outlook file that you'd like to copy into an appointment, you can use the Clipboard-you probably already know that.

Figure B Quickly create a meeting using an email. You can even copy the meeting to your calendar with a quick click. In the Meeting window, you can attach pertinent files and invite others. Doing so will open a Meeting window complete with the content from the email message, defaulting to the current date and time ( Figure B), which you can change if you want. Open the email message and then click Meeting on the Message tab in the Respond group. When creating new content as a team, the ability to collaborate around documents and presentations becomes especially valuable when your team is not in the same location.One of the quickest ways to create a Calendar item is to use an existing email.

Figure C Use real language to specify dates. When you click OK, Outlook will select the appropriate date ( Figure D). For example, press +G to display the Go To Date dialog and enter 9 days from now as shown in Figure C. Instead of using the date picker or even the Navigation calendar, you can use natural language or expressions to quickly access these dates.

SEE: Five presentation apps to replace PowerPoint 6: Appointments to DesktopDid you know that you can drag an appointment to your Desktop? Simply restore the Outlook window and drag the appointment to the Desktop for quick access to that appointment without opening Outlook first. You can also combine expressions. Identifying the date component in the expression is the key:To find days in the past, precede the expression with a hyphen (-) for example, -15d. However, the expression 15d will. While the phrase 9 days from now works, the phrase 15 days from now doesn't-not always.

You can view Tasks and People the same way. You can click dates to see appointments. Doing so will display a small Calendar, as shown in Figure E. If you want a quick glimpse of your Calendar while working in Mail (or any other window), hover over the Calendar shortcut.

Use this route when duplicating most of an event-it's easier than re-creating everything. To copy instead of moving an event or appointment, hold down the key while dragging it to a new day or time. Depending on the view, you can simply drag it to a new day or time slot. 8: Drag and drop appointments and eventsYou don't have to open an event to change its date or time.

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