It is a scheduling program, within Microsoft Outlook, that is fully integrated with e-mail, contacts, and other features. Creating appointments and events With the Outlook messaging and collaboration client, the creation of appointments and events is effortless. Just as a person pencils in an appointment in a paper calendar, a user of Outlook can click on any time slot in the Outlook calendar and just start typing. A user of Outlook can also create all-day events, such as vacations or business trips, and recurring items, such as a weekly business meeting or birthdays. Viewing and managing a calendar Outlook offers many useful ways to view and manage a calendar.
Users can view a single day, week, month, or even an entire year of their calendars at once.
The Work-Week view offers users a great way to see at a glance how busy or free their week is. Users can view their calendars in other ways as well, for instance to see a list of birthdays or a list of upcoming appointments. The tight integration of the Outlook Calendar and E-mail makes organizing meetings easy. The meeting organizer simply selects a time on his or her calendar, creates an appointment, and selects people to invite. Outlook will help the organizer find the earliest time at which all the people are free.