The Outlook.com Calendar is one more of the elements that we could find when entering our email, which will show us a great number of elements that will surely be of interest to us; In this article we will talk about the web application and not the application that is generally integrated in Office by Microsoft.
To be able to enjoy this Outlook.com Calendar logically we will need to have an account in this service, which could well be our old Hotmail.com since it automatically became Outlook.com; In order to review certain information that is automatically recorded in this calendar, we must also take into account that previously we should have linked the service with a few others, including Facebook as one of the most important social networks today.
Reviewing the different features of Outlook.com Calendar
Well, if we have the primary requirement then we could already be analyzing everything that is present in this Outlook.com Calendar; In a sequential way, below we will mention the steps that we would have to follow to be able to enter and later, review each of the corners that make up this service:
- We open our Internet browser (it does not matter if it is Google, Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox).
- In the space of the URL address of the browser we write Outlook.com (Hotmail.com also works).
- We put our access credentials to the service.
- We pay attention to the tab located in the upper left that says Outlook.
- We click on the small inverted down arrow.
- From the options shown we choose Calendar.
As we can admire, being able to access the calendar in our Outlook.com service is one of the easiest and simplest tasks to execute; the most complicated thing may be found in the handling of each of the functions integrated there, something that in reality It is very simple once we adapt to each one of them. Some of these functions are shown as options to choose from, which we could describe as follows:
- Towards the upper left side we have two arrows to go forward or backward in the current month, week or days in which we are.
- In the upper right we have the type of View; if we select the inverted arrow we can admire the calendar by month, week, day, agenda or task.
- The small gear wheel helps us to show important events on our calendar (every day of the week and birthdays or scheduled holidays).
In the options bar we also have a few more functions that we could use, where the tab:
- New. It will help us to create a new event, task, register a birthday mainly.
- Share. This option will help us to share our calendar with certain users who are within our contact list.
With these small elements that we have mentioned, we will already be able to handle each of the functions in our Outlook.com Calendar.
Edit the dates of our calendar
Once we open the calendar in Outlook.com, the first thing that will appear will be the month in which we are; there they will be registered mainly the birthdays (anniversaries or important events) of our friends, as long as they are added to our contact list. If we have linked to our Outlook.com Calendar With the Facebook social network, then the birthdays or important events of those contacts that we have added to the social network will also appear here.
If, for example, birthdays (or any other special event) that we do not want to remember and celebrate are registered in our calendar, then we could reach edit said data and even delete it from our registry; for this we only need to select the type of event (for the example we will use a birthday record) to check if it is the one we need to delete.
Once we click on said event, your information will automatically appear, showing us the name of the person involved, the place where they are registered (in our contact list or on the social network), the possibility of reviewing more details of said user and Of course, there is also a small blue button that will allow us to remove this event from our calendar.
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