Outlook Mail Calendar function

In order to access your Outlook Mail Calendar obviously you have to be logged in the platform, by entering your proper credentials as email account and password. To do so, enter https://outlook.live.com/ as the URL address to access and type down your credentials, in no time you will be logged in and with the Outlook home screen open for you to use the service.

Now, to access the Calendar web tool provided by Outlook mail there are available to methods or different ways, being both quite easy use. In first place, you can access the calendar by clicking on the “Applications” button placed at the very top left of the screen, and by doing so a sort of menu will be displayed with all services offered by Microsoft through Outlook.

In second place, we have actually an easier method to access the outlook mail calendar. At the bottom left of the screen there is a service panel where all the main products for the user are available. Well, in such service panel or menu the second option corresponds to “Calendar” and the app will get opened in just one second in another browser tab or new window.

Using the Outlook Mail Calendar: adding new events

At this point we have opened our outlook mail calendar, giving us the possibility to add new events, reminders and event other calendars with different dates, meetings and more, with customizable name and purpose. As default, the present day and general weather will be highlighted until you have chosen another day to set.

To add a new event in the calendar you are in there are two easy methods. First, you can click on the “New event” button located at the top left of the screen right below the Outlook home screen button.

By doing so, a small menu will be opened for you to enter the information about the event or meeting you want to register: title, date, time, location, repeating option and reminder.

After we have entered all of the information about the event or meeting we want to register, will are going to click on “Save” to save the event or discard in the case we want to cancel the procedure. In this way, the event saved will be shown in the day where it was set to be established as reminder.

Continuing, the second way to add an event can be considered more direct but implies to look for the precise date with the offered tools if such day is way ahead in the future. In simple words, we just have to click on the day in the outlook mail calendar to put an event directly on it.

If the day is close is a very quick method to use. For example, an event to set on July 29th is very straightforward by just clicking on it, appearing the same information menu as in the “New event” button. After we have filled in the data the event will be created in the exact day where we clicked.

As you can see, the event is now created and by being a birthday in the example the platforms recognizes the event and put an icon of a piece of cake in the registered entry.

Browsing possible event dates and creating new calendars

As it was said before, you can add events clicking directly in the day you want to set the event. Nonetheless, if such date is away or too ahead in the future, you have the possibility to use the browsing options in the calendar, making the process to find a date very easy.

First of all, the current day is showing in a little calendar placed at the left and by clicking in the arrows pointing up and down you can change between months, resulting very quick to find dates in the current year.

If you want to find a further date it results better using the option panel at the top of the big calendar in the layout, allowing to change month sequentially with the arrows or by picking the month you need clicking in the option. Also, in this panel you can choose the outlook mail calendar layout in terms if you want to be set it and shown by day, week, work week and month.

If you want to find a further date it results better using the option panel at the top of the big calendar in the layout, allowing to change month sequentially with the arrows or by picking the month you need clicking in the option. Also, in this panel you can choose the calendar layout in terms if you want to be set it and shown by day, week, work week and month.

For example, this is how the layout is shown when you set the option “week” in the calendar view, displaying the hours of every day and the days included in the week to pass.

On another topic, right down the little day chart shown in the layout you have the outlook mail calendar list, displaying the default calendar called “My calendar” and the created calendars with customizable name.

You can create a new calendar by clicking in the option add calendar.