The final Calendar tip for today is a reminder to use drag and drop to create new items. When you receive an email and want to add the information it contains to your calendar, just drag it to the calendar folder and drop (or right click and drag for additional options). You'll need to type in the date and time, but the contents of the email is added to the appointment body for you.

Diane Poremsky is the president of CDOLive LLC and a Microsoft Outlook MVP. She's coauthor of Word 2002: The Complete Reference (Osborne, 2001) and Beginning Visual Basic 6 Application Development (for Wrox Press). For questions or suggestions for future columns, write her at outlook@cdolive.com.