Question
How do I open a shared calendar, address book or Inbox folder?
Overview
If you have a Office 365 account, you can share and delegate Outlook e-mail messages, events, contacts, tasks, and notes with people who are on the same system. Important: To open another person's address book, calendar, or Inbox folder, the account owner must grant you permission and both you and the other person must have Office 365/Microsoft Exchange account. Microsoft Exchange account: an account managed by Microsoft Exchange Server. Microsoft Exchange accounts are used by organizations with many users. They make it possible to synchronize e-mail, calendars, and contacts between multiple computers.
Answer
- On the File menu, point to Open, and then click Other User's Folder.
- Click the find user button.
- Type the name of the person who granted you access, click Find, click the person's name, and then click OK.
- If you have multiple Microsoft Exchange accounts, on the Account pop-up menu, click the account that you want to use to open the other user's folder.
- On the Type pop-up menu, click Calendar, Address Book, or Inbox, and then click OK.
- The shared folder appears in the navigation pane Navigation pane.
- The left pane of the Document Connection for Mac window that displays saved locations and files under the Shared heading.
Note:
- If you have a shared folder selected in the navigation pane, new items that you create are saved in that shared folder.
- To remove another user's shared folder from your navigation pane (navigation pane: The left pane of the Document Connection for Mac window that displays saved locations and files), hold down CONTROL, click the folder, and then click Remove from View.