Planning and editing guides — page 2

Turn on Outlook’s shorten-duration setting to end events early or start them late, set separate minutes for short and long events, and check existing meetings.

Use Calendar on Mac’s Ignore alerts option for one calendar. Keep event visibility, system notifications and shared-calendar access separate.

Check iCloud’s hide-past-events preference before restoring calendars. Distinguish an invisible old appointment from a deleted record.

Keep an on-call coverage window, regular work and call-outs distinct; choose busy status from the real duty constraints.

See how Outlook treats appointments, meetings and all-day events, convert between them, and send updates to everyone or only to added attendees.

Turn on Outlook’s birthday calendar, add or fix birthdays through contacts, and hide or delete it without losing contacts, in new and classic Outlook.

Choose the right Outlook Show As status for each appointment and decide when automatic replies should block your calendar or decline meetings.

Set different work hours and an office or remote location for each day in new Outlook or Outlook on the web, and see how classic Outlook shows them.

Enter a night shift that crosses midnight with the correct start date, next-day end and a checkable interval instead of an all-day label.

Compare Phoenix and Honolulu meetings with seasonal New York, Denver and Los Angeles times using dated 2026 examples.

Print or save a Google Calendar as PDF: set the date range with the view, hide calendars you don’t want, and choose whether descriptions are included.

Print or save an Outlook calendar as PDF in new Outlook, classic Outlook or Mac: choose layout or style, range and whether private details print.

What Outlook’s Scheduling Assistant and a directory-opened calendar actually show about colleagues, why colours differ by client, and when to ask IT.

Restore a deleted Outlook appointment or meeting from Deleted Items, then from the server’s recoverable items, in new and classic Outlook.

Compare the 31st, last calendar day, last Friday and final Monday–Friday date. See the 2026 results and why weekday rules do not exclude public holidays.

Create a repeating Google task, see what completing one does, delete a single occurrence in Calendar, and avoid the limits that can’t be undone.

Plan a split shift as two timed blocks, distinguish occupied hours from the overall span and keep optional travel buffers explicit.

Compare Sydney and New York meetings across 2026 seasons, then choose an explicit anchor or an agreed seasonal compromise.

Separate a Google task deadline from start and end times. Plan three work blocks, check Busy availability and verify what the booking tool actually reads.

Cut Google Calendar email noise: pick which change and response emails each calendar sends, then label or archive the rest with a Gmail header filter.

Choose Message with sound, Email or Open file in Mac Calendar’s custom alert. Check timing, calendar support and recipient before relying on it.

Check New York–London meetings during the unequal 2026 and 2027 daylight-saving transitions instead of assuming four weeks every year.

Google moved Keep reminders to Google Tasks. Find them, spot what changed (location reminders, long titles, old reminders) and check the migration limits.

Model a 24-on/48-off roster and a Kelly-day exception while preserving the base cycle and checking exact handover dates.