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Location. This field makes a lot of sense; if you think about it,

almost everyone needs to record where a meeting is to take place.
You might type a reminder for yourself like My place, a specific
address like 212 East 23, or some other helpful information, like a
contact phone number or a flight number.

Start, End. Separate drop-down menus (and a drop-down
calendar) let you specify a date and time that this event starts and

stops.

All day. An “All day” event, of course, refers to something that has

no specific time of day associated with it: a holiday, a birthday, a
Windows book deadline. When you turn on this box, the name of
the appointment jumps to the top of the day/week/month square, in

the area reserved for this kind of thing.

Event description. In this big box, you can type or paste any text

you like—driving directions, contact phone numbers, a call history,
or whatever.

People. If the appointment is a meeting or some other gathering,
you can type the participants’ names here. As you type, a list of
matching names from your People app appears, to make it easy to
choose the one you want. (You can also type out a full email

address of anyone here.)

Once you’ve added a person’s name, you can add another, and then
another. Later, when you’re finished creating this event, the Send

button at top left will invite your lucky recipients via email. Each
message comes with an iCal.ics attachment: a calendar-program

invitation file. In many mail and calendar programs, opening this
attachment automatically presents your invitation; the recipients
can respond (by choosing the Accept, Maybe, or Decline buttons
that appear in their calendar programs).

For each appointment, you can have even more fun with the options in the

top toolbar. You can also indicate the following: