Applies To
Excel for Microsoft 365 PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 Excel 2021 PowerPoint 2021 Excel 2019 PowerPoint 2019 Excel 2016 PowerPoint 2016 Excel 2013 PowerPoint 2013

Use the Date action in either of the following ways:

  • Open your Outlook calendar to the specified date

  • Create a meeting appointment in Outlook on the specified date

To do this, a full date (including month, day, and year) must be specified in an Excel cell or on a PowerPoint slide. The format of the date can be long, such as January 22, 2021, or short such as 1/22/21. And you must also have Outlook set up on your computer.

With the full date in the document, you just right click it. Then, on the pop-up menu that appears, you select:

Additional Actions > ... (in PowerPoint)

or

Additional Cell Actions > ...  (in Excel)

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