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When you receive an email message that has information about a meeting or a training session, you can easily add it to your Outlook Calendar by simply dragging & dropping it.  From the view of the folder where the message is (most likely your Inbox), click on the little envelope icon, and drag it to the Calendar icon.

Outlook will create a new appointment for you -- you'll need to enter the time and date information, but the note field of the appointment form will contain the text of the email, which is convenient if the message contains details about the appointment, such as the address and travel directions, or link & login information for an online meeting.

You'll probably want to change the subject line of the appointment, so it shows up as something like "Selection Committee Meeting", instead of "Doodle poll to set the date of our next meeting".

Bad news: the calendar in Outlook 2007 doesn't display holidays, unlike previous versions of Outlook.
Good news: adding holidays to your calendar is easy! Just follow these steps...  read more »

1. Open Outlook
2. Click Tools on the menu bar
3. In the Tools dropdown menu, click Options
4. In the Options dialog box, click the Calendar Options button
5. In the Calendar Options dialog box, click the Add Holidays button
6. In the Add Holidays to Calendar dialog box, click the box next to United States, and then click the OK button
   
7. The Import Holidays window will open
8. When a "The Holidas were added to your Calendar" confirmation dialog box pops up, click the OK button to close it
   
9. Click the OK button to close the Calendar Options dialog box
10. Click the OK button to close the Options dialog box
    

Did you know that your calendar in Outlook 2007 is customizable? Even though the default view might be Week, find out how you can make it Day or Month to suit your needs. And find out how to change it from a 7-day week view to a 5-day work-week view. You can also show more or less detail in your calendar. These and more custom settings are demonstrated in this 4½ minute video http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA102392311033.aspx.