Check your schedule with a modern calendar experience for Outlook.com

Today we release a new, modern calendar experience for Outlook.com. Outlook.com calendar has been completely redesigned with a modern, intuitive interface which puts you in control of your schedule. Our calendar service is faster than ever, helps, focus the on the events and appointments, and tasks that you have added to the, and you can take your calendar on any device. The new Outlook.com calendar rolls out now available and are all over the world this week at https://calendar.live.com/.

The new, modern design of the Outlook.com, along with many Microsoft products, optimized "Content over chrome", i.e. in the case of calendar, your events and appointments are in the foreground.

 

We also have navigate and getting information to your calendar faster than ever before. You can add or edit events with a single click, enter an event by simply dragging of the mouse over the area of the date or time, you add tasks, without having to open a new page to the and jump to a specific date simply by clicking on the date.

Another important part of our design philosophy is to ensure that a consistent behavior that adds you up more than just the individual parts. You'll see the in as the new calendar naturally in the same family with your Inbox, address book and SkyDrive fits:

Today's calendar is wholly of course across the Internet-it has to work surprisingly well on your mobile devices.  Used sync Outlook.com Exchange ActiveSync email, calendar, and address book on your Smartphone, Tablet, in the new Outlook-2013 with the apps, Gmail, calendar, and people on your new PC or tablet with Windows 8. The Outlook Connector can integrate your calendar with earlier versions of Outlook desktop software. Connecting your calendar on the mobile device is.

You connect your Microsoft account, can access services such as Skype, LinkedIn and Facebook to see your friends birthdays in the calendar automatically from these services added. Current weather forecasts for many regions and breaks for a growing list of regions their calendar also shows you. You can import calendar (ICS files) or subscribe to public calendars from other services. iCalShare offers you thousands of holidays, sport and other calendars that you can subscribe to with one click. Or try to export a Google Calendar, and then you import Outlook.com, into your calendar by clicking the import link in the header.

We prioritize your privacy and your calendar is private so of course by default.  But we make it as easy as possible to share your calendar with others. All what you need to do is, click 'Share' in the header menu. When you share a calendar that others can access to the calendar, but as an owner, you determine who can add events to and edit. You can set it up in just a few clicks of the mouse.

You can either privately share the calendar with specific persons (by entering their e-Mail address), or you can click on "Get link", and then email or post this link anywhere you want.  You can also subscribe to change notifications on a shared calendar. So if a parent adds to or an event-a family meal, football game, doctor's appointment changes, make date night-you will be sure that the whole family by e-Mail informed. And can you so many shared calendars as you like.

Whether you're already using Outlook.com for your email, or you are looking for just a new, modern calendar, you can get started with each e-Mail address at Outlook.com calendar , as soon as your account is updated.

We are looking forward to your opinion.

--David Dennis, senior program manager lead, Outlook.com calendar

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Free 2013 calendar templates

Happy new year! Our free calendar templates are now available. Whether you are planning your day happy, keep track of special events, or a year's worth of holidays at a glance see (spoiler: July 4th is a Saturday), we have prepared.

Customize home calendar by replacing in your favorite photos, or choose a business calendar for the Office. We also enjoyed the academic year include creating calendars for students and teachers and parents , looking forward to their maturity. Excel wizards built even a school calendar 'Semester at a glance' with tools to support college students their courses organize and track when tasks are due.

Entry with links to popular templates below. In the comments, let us know how you want to use this calendar, or if there are others you want in the template libraryyou will find under.

Brighten your days by adding photos
Photo calendars , you can add one or more photos to the calendar. A beautiful photo calendar must be a tremendous weekend project with our templates. See how one of our colleagues has a fantastic photo calendars for their rowing club in just a few hours.

Keep your Office in order with business calendar
Business calendar formats are specially designed for the Office. You can customize these calendars by clicking the add your own company logo and Web address and choose templates with which to track progress daily.

Make the grade with school calendar
School calendars are with students and educators in mind has designed.

Calendar: These 12 months, student-oriented template has separate tabs for each month with space on each tab tracking per house homework books and timetables. Academic calendar: This 2012-2013 of academic calendar has a cute illustration of an old-fashioned schoolhouse. Use online or print the template you it for display.

Use a familiar Office application
Would you like a template specifically designed for your favorite Office application? Templates are available in several formats to the download.

Now, restart, allow time for the new year's resolutions!

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Schedule crammed? Try searching your Calendar

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Now when is that neighborhood planning meeting and will it conflict with the business dinner your boss just asked you to attend? Your calendar is so full that scanning it won't help. You might not know that the Outlook Calendar has its own Search to help you sort out the dates.

Search calendar items

In Outlook, in the Navigation Pane, click Calendar.

In the upper right corner of the calendar, in the Search Calendar box, type in a search term to find the meeting you are looking for.

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Calendar view in Outlook 2010

(We published first this post been in March 2010 with Outlook 2010 recently released.) (Many, many people find it a very useful feature to publish we are there again nor know more of you to leave.)

Microsoft Outlook 2010 has a new feature called calendar view, which makes it easier to schedule time with your employees. Calendar view is a new horizontal layout for the Outlook calendar that shows many calendars at the same time.

Click on Show Schedule , calendar view in Outlook 2010, Calendar, try. Calendar view is also displayed when at least five calendars are selected. (This number is customizable).

Team calendar

Calendar view is closely with a team of employees who share their calendar useful, if you are working. If you have a Microsoft Exchange Server account, displays the calendar group team calendar in the calendar navigation pane. The group team calendar includes calendar for your manager, direct superiors and colleagues such as from information in the Windows Active Directory.

If your team calendar to view, select Team calendar check box. All the calendars in the group are displayed in the calendar view.

Planning a meeting

To plan a meeting in timeline view, follow these steps:

1. In the Calendarin the navigation pane, select the people you want to invite to the meeting. Select the Conference room if you also space to include a conference resource.

2. If you want to schedule a conference room resource, choose a conference room.

3. The top row shows the calendar view a summary of free/busy availability for all the people who you have chosen. This summary, you can determine the best time for the meeting.

4) After you have selected a window, click the Start in the group new to new reviewtab. The participants and the time are automatically entered. Enter a subject, and then click send.

I hope that you will find useful the calendar view. I am looking forward to your comments!

Yasuhiko Mori
Outlook program manager, Tokyo, Japan

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Outlook calendar: No would there?

I think one of the most powerful features in all Office is in the Outlook calendar. I use it for keeping track, not only of meetings and appointments, but also for tasks, to do lists, reminders, and much more. All Office programs, it is MacGyver (my opinion anyway).

But I would be willing to bet that you a good many tricks are not aware, that can make the calendar with you even more useful. I have been using Outlook for years and years, and I'm learning is still new things about the calendar. Today I'll offer a few calendar tips, really your life (not to mention your calendar more useful you) can help.

If I my Outlook calendar, why not, I am not even sure that I would exist. Here are seven of my favorite tips:

Set up their calendar so that it shows as you like, so many weeks in a particular period of time to see

-You choose the days (or weeks) in the navigation pane of the calendar view (one on the left side that displays the entire month). If you want to see this period of time for the next few months, click the arrow next to the month name in the navigation calendar.

Fast several days side by side in the calendar view

-Drag the date picker on the data you want to view.

Saturday and Sunday in separate boxes in your monthly calendar view

-To display weekend days in separate boxes in the month view in Calendar view , right-click, and then click more settings. Clear the Compress weekend days check box.

Switch to viewing by month in calendar

-Click in Calendar, and then press ALT + equal sign.

Get details of the calendar in month view

-In the month view on the Start , in the group arrange select month, and then click the arrow below it, and select what level of detail you would like to see -low, medium , or high.

Change an appointment quickly in an all-day event

-Drag the Calendarin day view the appointment on the day header.

Change the time periods in the calendar grid

-You can change the default setting for 30-minutes slots, 5, 6, 10, 15-, or 60-minute window change. With the right mouse button on the Calendar, click more settings, and then click the number you want from the list of time scale .

Hungry for more? There are a lot more information out there about considered using the Outlook calendar.

-Annik

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Conquer your calendar: using Gemini analyze your time (video)

Today we are very excited to release a free tool, the Powerpivot for Excel for Excel-used calendar of analytics. Analytics is a time management application that retrieves information from Microsoft Exchange and visualize that data in a very easy-to-use Excel dashboard. We are releasing this application to honor the administrative professionals of day, but this application is designed not only for senior managers and their administrative assistants.

This new business intelligence tool has been developed as part of a sustained efforts to individuals and organizations show that BI by everyone, not just CIOs and top level executives can be used. See this special episode of the BITV, to find out how the Analytics calendar idea came and to get an overview of the application. Then, download the application and tell us what you think!

Powerpivot for Excel is required, perform calendar of analytics. You can download this free add-in here.

-Diego Oppenheimer

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