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Heather Millar,
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Associate University Librarian (Research and Learning Services), University of Canterbury
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Then General Manager, Beiersdorf New Zealand
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Wayne & Lisa Hughes,
Occupational Therapy Helping Children, NSW, Australia
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Australian Institute of Credit Managers,
Sydney Branch
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Professional Services Review, Canberra
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Real Estate Institute of NSW
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Raewyn James,
Tamaki Teachers' Conference
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Austereo, Australia
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Ass. Director, Marketing and Communication, L.J. Hooker Ltd
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Principal, Marley Loft Systems (Accountants)
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Past President, New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants
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Chairman, Academy for Chief Executives, United Kingdom
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Gareth McCulloch,
National Sales Manager, Southern Hospitality Limited
with Windows 7 that box didn’t open in front of the Inbox screen. Instead, it coyly tucked itself behind the open email window and I had to go back to the Outlook icon along the bottom toolbar to find the open screen.) Anyway, once you see your Calendar window all you have to do is set the appointment times. The entire email, with all its information, is in the body of the calendar item. And – the original email still sits patiently in whichever folder you dragged it from.
Hi Robyn
After three months holiday it’s great to get back into the swing of things with reminders like this.
I’ve also taken to doing a quick look at my emails first thing on my iPone so although I can’t move it my important messages I can “star” it for immediate attention.
I started doing this to avoid doing emails first thing, but making sure I wasn’t neglecting anything I urgently needed to do for one of the managers I look after.
Love getting your messages.
Warm regards
Carron
Hi Robyn,
Yes, the click n’ drag an email to the calendar is a great feature but it does have 2 ‘downsides’. It won’t take any attachment to the email and, if you only drag the email to the calendar icon, it opens a new appointment for today, right now (which is exactly when you are NOT going to do it).
This means messing around to change the date and time without being able to see your calendar.
That’s why the Ctrl C is advantageous. After copying you can go to calendar, view your schedule and then choose the appropriate date and time for the email task. One click on that time then Ctrl V will paste it with the subject lien of the email but without the attachment.
Double click the time instead and then Ctrl V into the appointment window – this takes the attachment but not the subject line. But this is no real problem as, more often that not, you will need to change the subject line so that it makes sense when you come back to it in the calendar in a few days.
The trick is to make the first word of the new subject line for the appointment a ‘doing’ word such as read, write, review, prepare, ring. This way, you don’t have to try working out what has to be done, that thinking has already been done and is reflected in the title of the calendar appointment.
Hope this rounds out the point you were making about how easy it is to convert tasks that arrive via email into the calendar.