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Creating additional calendars

Creating additional calendars

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Creating additional calendars

- In addition to opening shared calendars I can also create brand new calendars of my own. This is useful if I want to create a calendar for something that's completely separate than my regular calendar. For example, a personal calendar for family appointments or if you're running a nonprofit and they have their own social event calendar. To create a new calendar, from the Home ribbon tab select Open Calendar and then choose Create New Blank Calendar. I can give my calendar a name. In this case, I'll call it Personal. And I need to decide where to put it. I'll put it with my calendar. I'll click OK. My new calendar's created and I'll place a checkbox next to it so I can see it in the view. I can right click on my new calendar and change the color of it. I can also choose to overlay it on top of my own. Now, whenever I want to create a new appointment I need to click these tabs at the top of the calendar and make sure I'm in the correct one first. For example, right now my personal…

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