Quick Google Calendar Tip: Define Appointment Times With Drag and Drop
It’s never been quicker. Remember our recent tip about saying it all in one line? Well, this is even faster. You don’t even have to type anything to define the duration of your appointments. When you click on a date and time on Google Calendar, GCal brings up the entry form. The default duration is one hour. So, if you, say, click on 12 p.m. of May 15th, the default appointment time is from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
However, you can use your mouse to drag from your starting time to end time, and GCal will automatically set this as the duration.
So for instance, I drag my mouse from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. of May 15th.
Google calendar will bring up an entry form, but the time now will be from 12 to 4 p.m. of that day. I no longer have to type in 12-4pm on the description box, or go deep by clicking edit event details.
So again, you just click and drag from the start time to the end time, and let go of your mouse button. You will get an event entry form with the selected time already indicated.
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I thought that the drag-to-select method of entering times and durations was the standard way to kinda-quickly enter the start and duration of an event. The only problem with it is that when I schedule two events for the same time, I can’t drag to select the time again.
So I was glad to learn about the other way you posted for quickly entering the time. With your previously talked about method, you can click anywhere and, on the pop-up, enter the time of the event, even if it overlaps with a previously entered event.
hi nice post, i enjoyed it
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