Outlook Screen Reader: Calendar Basics

Ricky: Hello, my name is Ricky Enger and today we will get a quick intro to the Outlook Calendar. We'll explore different methods of viewing our calendar, and we'll learn how to move to a specific date in the calendar. We're using NVDA as our screen reader, but the concepts we learned here will be pretty similar no matter which screen reader we're using. Hey, wouldn't it be nice if we could easily remember everything we have to do in a day? And remember what time we should do it?

Yeah, we'd all like that, but it's just not realistic. That's where the Outlook Calendar comes in. It's a place where we can add all those appointments that we try to keep track of on our own, and then we can just let the program take care of reminding us. Sounds good, right? So let's get started. We're in Microsoft Outlook and we're focused in our inbox. To get to the calendar from here, we just need to press one shortcut key Control plus the number two.

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