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Re: outlook calendar and sharing


 

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Hi Susan.
I highly recommend using the scheduling assistant facility within Outlook. For me at least, I don't care what is on my colleague's calendars, only whether they are available or not. So I no longer need to worry about missing with the calendars themselves. If you also use iOS, and you add all of the people prior to setting the time, the iOS app will tell you how many people are available at that given time automatically.

HTH,
Scott



On Oct 2, 2020, at 9:25 AM, Mcavoy, Matthew via <Matthew_Mcavoy@...> wrote:

Scheduling assistant displays a chart of available times for meeting attendees, so as the organizer, you can select a time that works best for the schedules of everyone in the group.? I have not figured out how to make it work with a screen reader, since it is visual. Any suggestions from this group would be much appreciated.

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Marsha Drenth
Sent: Friday, October 2, 2020 9:12 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [office-accessibility] outlook calendar and sharing

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What is scheduling assistant?

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Thank you,

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Marsha Drenth, Access Technology Instructor

Associated Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired
919 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Personal:215-821-6151

Office: 215-627-0600 Ext. 3254
FAX: 215-922-0692

Email: MDrenth@...

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Susan Thompson
Sent: Friday, October 2, 2020 3:50 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [office-accessibility] outlook calendar and sharing

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Well,

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All I can say is I¡¯m glad that using multiple people¡¯s calendars works for some people.

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When I open somebody else¡¯s Calendar and navigate between My Calendar and that one, every time I do something like change days in the other calendar I find myself back in my calendar.

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This is still the most frustrating aspect of using outlook as far as I am concerned!

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One of my blind colleagues has some success with using scheduling assistant for scheduling a meeting with multiple people and not knowing their availability, but I¡¯ve not yet tried it yet.

Regards

Susan

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Rebecca Kragnes
Sent: Thursday, 24 September 2020 2:22 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [office-accessibility] outlook calendar and sharing

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Marsha,

I¡¯m new at this too, but I just had some training on the calendar. The key f6 cycles between the tree view of all the calendars you can check and uncheck to show individually, the navigation bar, the ribbon, the status bar, and each individual calendar you are viewing. So my understanding is that if you cycle through with f6 and read the titles, you¡¯ll know where you are and won¡¯t have to look at multiple calendars simultaneously.

Rebecca Kragnes

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Marsha Drenth
Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 10:10 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [office-accessibility] outlook calendar and sharing

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If an individual uses a outlook calendar but then someone shares their calendar with them. How does one view their own calendar, with the new persons calendar layered on top? Or what if your looking at multiple calendars all at the same time. Or does one have to view one calendar and then another persons one at a time? This would make it hard to figure out what dates and times would work for a group. I know that other applications can be used for that, but I am also thinking about ease.

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Thank you, ?

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Marsha Drenth, Access Technology Instructor

Associated Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired
919 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Personal:215-821-6151

Office: 215-627-0600 Ext. 3254
FAX: 215-922-0692

Email:
MDrenth@...

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