macosmicrosoft-outlook-2011
How do I create a calendar appointment from an e-mail in Outlook 2011 for Mac?
In Windows, the e-mail content and attachments are carried over just by dragging and dropping. Dragging and dropping on the Mac doesn't work.
Is there any other function to take an e-mail and make it a calendar appointment?
I'm trying to avoid emailing it to myself.
Edit: Since someone went to the trouble to make email2task, is it safe to assume this feature is not available otherwise?
Use raw queries. For flagged or unread mails:
(com_microsoft_outlook_flagged = 1) || (com_microsoft_outlook_unread = 1)
Important note: Do not use this folder with the "mark as read immediately" option, as seen here:
This results in a continuous mark as read -- remove from view -- show next message -- mark as read cycle, until everything is marked as read and you have no idea what you've now missed. Instead, I've switched to the 2nd option displayed that marks as read when you select a different message.
Microsoft has explained that they have not included anything other than exchange sync in the first release of office 2011 (Outlook v14).
They have stated that they will bring Calendar support with SP1 which will be a free release in Q1/Q2 of 2011 (looks like Q2 now!)
For what it's worth Thunderbird with Lightening and Google Cal plugin works pretty seamlessly.
Best Answer
Outlook 2011 for the Mac was re-written from the ground up (Microsoft didn't re-use the previous Entourage code), so it's lacking a lot of features that: A) Are in the Windows version B) Have been in previous versions.
But the upside is that it's fast and native on Intel-based Mac OSX.
There is no built-in feature to create an appointment from message in Outlook 2011 for Mac, so I wrote one: Appointment from Message v2.1