Peculiarities with using Command+N in Calendar view in Entourage 2008

[Jeff Chapman]

Not sure how many people have noticed this, but
I found out this evening that Entourage 2008 exhibits
some peculiar behavior when using the Command+N
key to create new items in Calendar view.

Specifically, if you have your To-Do list displayed in
Calendar view, and have the focus set on the to-do list
(i.e., you have one or more tasks in the list selected,
or you've just clicked somewhere on the To-Do list),
pressing Command+N will open up a new task,
despite the fact that you are in Calendar view.

However, if you click somewhere on the calendar itself,
or have just created a calendar appointment, and then
press the same Command+N, you will get a new
appointment, not a new task.

Same view, same keystroke, different behavior.

It's very subtle, but it can throw you off if you're working
frequently in Calendar view as I do.

On a similar topic - how many of you really, really miss
being able to drag and drop tasks from the to-do list
into the Calendar to create a new appointment?
That functionality is available in Outlook, but it has been
missing from Entourage since 2004.

Jeff

 

[Ed Kimball]

Not sure how many people have noticed this, but
I found out this evening that Entourage 2008 exhibits
some peculiar behavior when using the Command+N
key to create new items in Calendar view.

Specifically, if you have your To-Do list displayed in
Calendar view, and have the focus set on the to-do list
(i.e., you have one or more tasks in the list selected,
or you've just clicked somewhere on the To-Do list),
pressing Command+N will open up a new task,
despite the fact that you are in Calendar view.

However, if you click somewhere on the calendar itself,
or have just created a calendar appointment, and then
press the same Command+N, you will get a new
appointment, not a new task.

Same view, same keystroke, different behavior.

It's very subtle, but it can throw you off if you're working
frequently in Calendar view as I do.

On a similar topic - how many of you really, really miss
being able to drag and drop tasks from the to-do list
into the Calendar to create a new appointment?
That functionality is available in Outlook, but it has been
missing from Entourage since 2004.

Jeff

I believe that the behavior is intentional. Cmd-N creates a new item of
whatever type currently has focus.

E.g., if you have email selected, cmd-N creates a new email message; if you
have a newsgroup selected, cmd-N creates a new newsgroup post; if you have
an address in the address book selected, cmd-N creates a new contact.
Similarly for tasks and the calendar.

You can always choose what type of New item you want by selecting either the
New button at the top of the current list window or New> from the File menu.