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Working with the calendar
See the following table for descriptions of commonly-performed calendar tasks.
Scheduling a meeting
When you schedule meetings, you can check the schedules of invitees, reserve a location, set up online meetings, and track invitee responses.
Specifying a non-local time zone for a meeting or appointment
You can specify a time zone other than your current time zone when you create a calendar entry.

Working with the calendar
See the following table for descriptions of commonly-performed calendar tasks.
- Setting calendar preferences
  Customize your calendar by setting your office hours, meeting invitations, and time zone information. Set any calendar defaults you want for new entries, such as entry type, anniversary repeat duration, and appointment and meeting duration. For time zone selections in new entries to take effect, you must first set your time zone preferences on this same page.
- Filtering entries in a calendar view
  To decrease clutter in the calendar, you can choose which types of entries to show on the calendar.
- Working with group calendars
  To view or work with group calendars, from your calendar, use the Group Calendar view in the navigator.
- Repairing a calendar that displays duplicate entries
  A repair function is available if your calendar displays a duplicate entry for each instance of a repeating meeting, showing two identical meetings scheduled at the same time.
- Scheduling a meeting
  When you schedule meetings, you can check the schedules of invitees, reserve a location, set up online meetings, and track invitee responses.
  - Seeing when people are available for meetings
    When you schedule a meeting, you can check to see when the invitees are available.
  - Making changes to meetings
    You may need to make changes to your meetings after you have scheduled them and sent out invitations.
  - Specifying a non-local time zone for a meeting or appointment
    You can specify a time zone other than your current time zone when you create a calendar entry.
  - Reserving rooms and resources for a meeting
    When you schedule a meeting, you can reserve conference rooms and resources (such as overhead projectors) if they are included in the directory your organization uses. If you do not have access to rooms and resources, see your administrator.
  - Adding online meeting information to invitations
    When you schedule a meeting, you can select the online meeting service used in your organization, specify your meeting information related to the service, and save it as your default online meeting. Then, when you create future invitations your meeting information fills in the online meeting section of the new invitations.
  - Managing contacts
    You save information about people and groups in your contacts.
- Responding to meeting invitations
  When you receive a meeting invitation it displays in your Inbox and in the Meeting Notices view of your calendar.
- Viewing all meeting notices
  In addition to viewing meetings on your calendar on their scheduled dates and times, you can view all meeting notices as a list or in summary form. You can also view your calendar entries from the sidebar using Day-At-A-Glance.
- Using instant meetings
  You can use HCL Sametime® to host and attend instant meetings.

Specifying a non-local time zone for a meeting or appointment

You can specify a time zone other than your current time zone when you create a calendar entry.

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When you specify a time zone other than your local time zone, the entry displays at the corresponding local time in your calendar. For example, if you are in Boston (Eastern Time, US and Canada) and you create a calendar entry for a meeting that starts at 4:00 PM in Spain (Western/Central Europe time), the entry displays on your calendar at 10:00 AM local time.

In a new meeting or appointment entry, for either or both the Starts and Ends fields, click Show Time Zones to select a different time zone.

Tip: The start and end times do not have to be in the same time zone. For example, if you schedule a meeting that spans multiple time zones and you want to be aware of how the end time affects those not in your time zone, set a different time zone to check the end time.

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