How to Quickly Access Your Calendar Using the To Do Bar in Microsoft Outlook 2007

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Accessing your calendar in Microsoft Outlook isn't a tough thing to do. However, you can use the To-Do Bar in Outlook 2007 to quickly jump to future dates without navigating away from your Inbox look. It's an easy and powerful feature, and this brief article will highlight how it can be used.

• Steps

1. Locate and familiarize yourself with the To-Do Bar's mini calendar. By default, the To-Do Bar is displayed on the righthand side of the Outlook application, and you'll find the mini calendar at the top.
   
   
2. Click on the Month/Year heading on the mini calendar. It doesn't appear to be a dropdown menu, but that's precisely the kind of functionality which is therein hidden. In a series of clicks, the mini calendar can be changed to display the future month of your choosing.
   
   
3. Go from there. Any day in the future is clickable on your mini calendar, and the next click takes you straight to the "Day" look of the selected day in your Outlook calendar.
   
   

• Tips
  The To-Do Bar can be hidden, if you'd prefer to not see the mini calendar at all. Think of the To-Do Bar as something you can toggle to hide, just like your Start menu, but that it's probably most desirable to keep it displayed, unless you have low monitor resolution or screen work space.

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