Birthday field reminder

[lrdupont]

Is there a way to change the birthday reminder in Outlook 2003
that is added to my calendar by default? I wanna that all birthday reminder
start at 8:00am and not at 12:00pm, but I don't want to change um by one
every time that I add a new contact.

 

[Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]]

Default reminder times for appointments/events always correspond to the value
you have set in the "Start Time" field in Tools | Options | Preferences tab |
Calendar Options | Calendar work week section. So, if you have the start
time set to 8:00 AM, the default reminder time for new appointments/events
will be 8:00 AM.

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[Brian Tillman]

Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]

Default reminder times for appointments/events always correspond to
the value you have set in the "Start Time" field in Tools | Options |
Preferences tab | Calendar Options | Calendar work week section. So,
if you have the start time set to 8:00 AM, the default reminder time
for new appointments/events will be 8:00 AM.

Won't Outlook add Contact birthdays as all day events with default 18 hour
reminders?

 

[Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]]

It should, yeah...but the OP is saying his are showing up with reminders at
12 noon, so I don't know what's going on. Maybe he will give us more info.

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MVP - Outlook

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Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]

Default reminder times for appointments/events always correspond to
the value you have set in the "Start Time" field in Tools | Options |
Preferences tab | Calendar Options | Calendar work week section. So,
if you have the start time set to 8:00 AM, the default reminder time
for new appointments/events will be 8:00 AM.

Won't Outlook add Contact birthdays as all day events with default 18 hour
reminders?

 

[Michael]

Birthdays in Outlook
Hi Jocelyn

I have a similar challenge. When I add a birthday in Outlook 2007 under the
Details then Birthday section it adds it as an all day event, with a default
reminder of 15 minutes. So if someones birthday is 4 June, on the 3rd of
June at 11.45pm I will be reminded.

Is there a way to set a default reminder time of 12 hours for birthdays or
have birthdays only remind you at 8am.

Thanks
Michael

 

[Hanz Johansson]

I believe the OP is saying that the birthday reminders are showing up at
midnight (not at 12 noon). At least that is a problem that I have. I am
using Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync with Exchange Server 2003, and all my
reminders are automatically synchronized with my phone. It is quite annoying
to wake up to a beeping reminder at 11:45 pm (15 minutes before midnight)
every day somebody has a birthday. I have set the "Start Time" field in
Tools | Options | Preferences tab | Calendar Options | Calendar work week
section, to 8:00 AM, but the birthday reminder still woke me up at 11:45
last night. It is quite frustrating.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I believe the OP is saying that the birthday reminders are showing up
at midnight (not at 12 noon). At least that is a problem that I have.
I am using Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync with Exchange Server 2003, and
all my reminders are automatically synchronized with my phone. It is
quite annoying to wake up to a beeping reminder at 11:45 pm (15
minutes before midnight) every day somebody has a birthday. I have
set the "Start Time" field in Tools | Options | Preferences tab |
Calendar Options | Calendar work week section, to 8:00 AM, but the
birthday reminder still woke me up at 11:45 last night. It is quite
frustrating.

Why not open the event and remove the reminder or change it to a convenient
time? By default, all-day event reminders are set to "18 hours" and you
can't change that.