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>     There are many methods for making a new appointment in the GNOME Calendar,
     the easiest is by pressing the <SPAN
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>New</SPAN
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     button bar. Whenever you make a new appointment you will launch the Create
     New Appointment dialog that allows you to set the properties of that
     appointment. The Create New Appointment dialog is broken into two 
     different tabs, the General and the Recurrence tabs.
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>     General - The General tab is the area in which you specify the time of the
     appointment and set reminders for yourself. There are four different areas
     on the General tab: Summary, Time, Alarms, and Classification.
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>        Summary - The Summary box allows you to type a description of the 
	appointment. Keep in mind that only a portion of this description will
	be available in the Week and Month Views.
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>        Time - The Time area allows you to set the time range for the
        appointment by selecting the date and hours. To the right of the start
        and end days there is a small selection box named Calendar. This will
	bring up a small Calendar when pressed. You may select the start and end
	date in the small calendar. To the right of the  start en end hours 
	there is a small button which will display the hours of the day when
        pressed. Each hour in the list will have a sub menu displaying each 
	quarter hour so you may select them. The hours are restricted to those
	included in the Day Range.
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>        Alarms - The Alarms area allows you to set up an alarm to remind you of
	an appointment. There are four different types of alarms you may use to
	remind yourself of appointments: Display, Audio, Program, and Mail. The
	Display alarm will display a message on your screen in the time you
	set. The Audio alarm will play an audio file at the time you set. The 
	Program alarm will run a program you specify at the time you set. The
	Mail alarm will send email to the user specified at the time you set.
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>     Recurrence - The Recurrence tab allows you to specify how often an 
     appointment should recur, if at all. The first property you should set if 
     you want a recurring appointment is the Recurrence rule. You may choose 
     among None, Daily, Weekly, Monthly, and Yearly. For each selection you may
     adjust the recurrence properties for your selection. In the Ending date 
     area you may set a rule which will stop the recurrence of your appointment
     or allow it to repeat forever. In the Exceptions area you may make
     exceptions to the recurring appointment by double-clicking the date and
     pressing the <SPAN
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