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Tip

If you have a keyboard, you can instead hit Ctrl+Alt+1, +2, +3, +4, and +5 for Today, Day, Work
Week, Week, and Month views.

Navigating in any of the views is easy and fun for the whole family:

Touchscreen: Swipe vertically to move through the hours,
horizontally to move through the days.

Mouse: Turn the scroll wheel to move through the hours; add Shift
to move through the days.

Keyboard: The and keys go to the previous/next day, and

the and keys go to the previous/next hour.

In Month view, on the other hand, there’s only one way to scroll: vertically,
with your finger, keyboard, trackpad, or mouse.

Tip

A compact calendar appears at the left side. You can use it to jump quickly to a date that’s far in
the future (or the past, if you like to rewrite history).

To jump back to today’s date, hit Today.

Making an Appointment: Quick Way

The basic calendar is easy to figure out. After all, with the exception of one
unfortunate Gregorian incident, we’ve been using calendars successfully for
centuries.

In Day, Week, or Month view, tap or click the correct time slot or date
square. A little new-event box appears, where you can specify the name for
your appointment (“Lunch with Chris” or whatever); start and end times (if,