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A

  • All-day event: an event that doesn’t have a time frame, such as a birthday or anniversary.

C

  • Calendar layer: a way to organize your events into manageable groups, including calendars you subscribe to. You could have a Work calendar layer and a Personal calendar layer and view them together or separately.
  • Client: an application that you install on your computer.

E

  • -Event: an upcoming activity that you enter in your Yahoo! Calendar, such as a birthday or doctor’s appointment.

I

  • iCal: an .ics format that allows the exchange of calendar events across applications.

M

  • Mini calendar: the small calendar displayed in the calendar and search panel of Yahoo! Calendar.
  • Mini editor: the small editor that displays when you add an inline event.

P

  • Primary email address: the email address you identified as your primary address in your Yahoo! account.

S

  • Shared calendar or list: a calendar or to do list that you share with one or more of your contacts. A shared calendar or list may be view only or editable so that you and your friends can edit the same item.
  • Subscribe: to add a shared calendar or to do list to your Yahoo! Calendar.
  • Subscription: a calendar or to do list shared by someone else that you add to your Yahoo! Calendar.

T

  • To Do list: a list of items that you’d like to complete.

V

  • View: the way you see your calendar; either by day, week, month, or year.