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So often, appointments are scheduled through email.  I find that I often want the text of an email to be in the body of my appointment.  That way, when my reminder goes off, and I have no idea what the appointment is about, I can click Open Item, and see the details.  But copying and pasting the contents of an email into a calendar appointment is more work than I want to do.  Fortunately, there is a faster way to put the contents of an email into an appointment.  I use this almost every day.

When you want to make a calendar appointment from an email, you can just click on the email and drag it to your calendar (in the Folder list, or on the blue bar at the bottom).  A new appointment opens.  The subject line of the email will be the subject of the appointment.  The rest of the email, including the sender, date, and body, will be in the body of the appointment.  Just enter a date, time, and location, and click Save and Close.  Now the appointment is on your calendar.

Those of you using Office 2007 can remove one step.  You can drag the email to a specific day on the Date Navigator in the To Do Bar, and the new appointment that opens will be for that date.  That’s a great bonus in Office 2007!