Outlook Low Vision: Check Appointments

Vikki: Hi, I'm Vikki Vaughan and today we'll learn how to work with existing appointments in Microsoft Outlook's calendar. This workshop is intended for users with low vision. If you use a screen reading program, be sure to check out our screen reading version of this workshop.

In previous workshops in this series I've mentioned that I rely on Outlook's calendar function much like a personal assistant. It helps me arrange my schedule and it's always there to remind me of upcoming appointments.

Let's jump right into Outlook to learn how to work with existing appointments in your life. We learned in another workshop in this series that when we initially open Outlook we land in our inbox. Today let's use our keyboard shortcut, control and the number two, to switch from our inbox to our calendar view. Here in the default view we see our entire month. By locating our highlighted day, we can quickly find out what's on tap for today. Okay, we see that we have our monthly book club meeting scheduled for this evening at 7 p.m. To review details of the appointment, we use our mouse pointer to hover over the appointment.

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