adding birthdays to calendar

[Gerold]

I would like my contacts birthdays and anniversary to appear automatically on
my calendar after I have entered new contact information. How can I do this
in Outlook 2007?

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

When you add this information to the contact's details tab, it will automagically appear. Are you saying that this is not happening for you?

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After furious head scratching, Gerold asked:

| I would like my contacts birthdays and anniversary to appear
| automatically on my calendar after I have entered new contact
| information. How can I do this in Outlook 2007?

 

[Brad]

I am having a similar issue. I use Outlook 2002. It seems that sometimes
when I put a birthday or anniversary in a contact, it automatically generates
a reminder. This is what I want. The problem is that sometimes, alot of
times, it does not. Any advice??

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

What differences are there in ones that do and do not generate the reminder?

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After furious head scratching, Brad asked:

| I am having a similar issue. I use Outlook 2002. It seems that
| sometimes when I put a birthday or anniversary in a contact, it
| automatically generates a reminder. This is what I want. The
| problem is that sometimes, alot of times, it does not. Any advice??
|
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| When you add this information to the contact's details tab, it will
|| automagically appear. Are you saying that this is not happening for
|| you?
||
|| --Â
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Gerold asked:
||
||| I would like my contacts birthdays and anniversary to appear
||| automatically on my calendar after I have entered new contact
||| information. How can I do this in Outlook 2007?

 

[Brad]

Milly-

That's exactly right. The reminders are not being generated.

Thanks for looking at my problem.

Brad

I am having a similar issue. I use Outlook 2002. It seems that sometimes
when I put a birthday or anniversary in a contact, it automatically generates
a reminder. This is what I want. The problem is that sometimes, alot of
times, it does not. Any advice??

When you add this information to the contact's details tab, it will automagically appear. Are you saying that this is not happening for you?

--Â
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Gerold asked:

| I would like my contacts birthdays and anniversary to appear
| automatically on my calendar after I have entered new contact
| information. How can I do this in Outlook 2007?

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Can you provide the information I requested? What are the differences between the two types that may cause this problem?

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After furious head scratching, Brad asked:

| Milly-
|
| That's exactly right. The reminders are not being generated.
|
| Thanks for looking at my problem.
|
| Brad
|
| "Brad" wrote:
|
|| I am having a similar issue. I use Outlook 2002. It seems that
|| sometimes when I put a birthday or anniversary in a contact, it
|| automatically generates a reminder. This is what I want. The
|| problem is that sometimes, alot of times, it does not. Any advice??
||
||
|| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
||
||| When you add this information to the contact's details tab, it will
||| automagically appear. Are you saying that this is not happening
||| for you?
|||
||| --Â
||| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
|||
||| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
||| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
||| reading.
|||
||| After furious head scratching, Gerold asked:
|||
|||| I would like my contacts birthdays and anniversary to appear
|||| automatically on my calendar after I have entered new contact
|||| information. How can I do this in Outlook 2007?

 

[Marsha]

Milly, since I converted to Office 2007, some (not all) birthdays do not
produce reminders. I realized this after almost missing a couple of
important birthdays!

I cannot pinpoint what causes some to work and others not. For example, I
currently have a reminder under my calendar for an old contact, whose
birthday is not until June 2. I recently added a birthday for one of my
other contacts, whose birthday is May 9, and there is no reminder.

One difference I see (now that I looked) is that for the latter event, it is
(as should be) an all day Recurring Event, and the other shows up as a
Recurring Appointment. So... perhaps Events do not automatically generate
Reminders? I do not see any option to set a reminder, other than the box
that lets you specify the number of days/hours before.

I also note that some events/appointments cause the day on the calendar to
be displayed in bold font, and others do not. And some reminders -- I am
talking about the reminders that appear in the To-Do Bar underneath my little
calendar, not the ones that pop up in a little window -- show the DATE and
others only show the day of the week and the time.

I don't recall ever having a problem with this in earlier versions of
Outlook, but then I wasn't using the To-Do Bar. Any ideas?

Marsha

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Did you at one time use Import to populate your Contacts folder? If yes, then try opening each contact whose birthday does not display correctly/remind correctly and change one item and then change it back and resave it.

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After furious head scratching, Marsha asked:

| Milly, since I converted to Office 2007, some (not all) birthdays do
| not produce reminders. I realized this after almost missing a couple
| of important birthdays!
|
| I cannot pinpoint what causes some to work and others not. For
| example, I currently have a reminder under my calendar for an old
| contact, whose birthday is not until June 2. I recently added a
| birthday for one of my other contacts, whose birthday is May 9, and
| there is no reminder.
|
| One difference I see (now that I looked) is that for the latter
| event, it is (as should be) an all day Recurring Event, and the other
| shows up as a Recurring Appointment. So... perhaps Events do not
| automatically generate Reminders? I do not see any option to set a
| reminder, other than the box that lets you specify the number of
| days/hours before.
|
| I also note that some events/appointments cause the day on the
| calendar to be displayed in bold font, and others do not. And some
| reminders -- I am talking about the reminders that appear in the
| To-Do Bar underneath my little calendar, not the ones that pop up in
| a little window -- show the DATE and others only show the day of the
| week and the time.
|
| I don't recall ever having a problem with this in earlier versions of
| Outlook, but then I wasn't using the To-Do Bar. Any ideas?
|
| Marsha