On 10/17/00 5:06 PM, "Matt Ridley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 17/10/00 9:51 pm, John Santora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Is it not possible to copy and paste calendar events? Let's say I have a
>> doctor's appointment on Tuesday, with a follow-up visit ten days later. Can
>> I not just hightlight the first appointment and option-drag, or Cmd-C /
>> Cmd-V it into the second date? All the Cut-and-Paste menu choices are greyed
>> out, and I can't find anything about it in the Help files.
>
> I'm afraid that you can't copy-paste, drag-copy, or duplicate Calendar
> events. It's annoying, isn't it?
>
Hi Matt,
Thanks for the reply.
It's more than annoying. My example was probably too trivial, so it didn't
truly convey the shortcomings of this omission.
Let's take a more real-world example. You have a project on a really tight
deadline, and need to schedule 5 meetings over a 21-day period. You have 7
people who should attend these meetings, and you want to send invitations
out to all of them. You create the event for the first meeting, setting
links, reminders and invitations, and then want to duplicate the event for
the remaining 4 meetings, but they are not on any kind of recurring
schedule. Copy-drag would be a *whole* lot easier than having to *re-create*
the event from scratch 4 more times.
Tasks, Notes and Messages all have "Duplicate xxxx" etc. on their Edit
menus. But on the Calendar, Duplicate is greyed out.
I hope this is on the short list of things to be addressed in version 9.01
(yup, check the About Entourage splash screen -- Note to Development Team:
how does a brand-new app get released as version 9?).
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John Santora
Toronto, Canada
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