Calendar Reminders Display in Background

[Deborah]

Using XP Professional, Enterprise Edition. Reminder
notices pop up behind open documents - any way to change
this and have reminder notices pop up in front of the
active screen?

Thanks.

 

[rd79]

My 2002 does similar thing, there has to be some options
to adjust, I miss reminders all the time...

 

[D]

I am also using Outlook 2002 on XP Professional operating
system - any help from anyone on getting reminders to pop
up in foreground instead of background is appreciated.

 

[Kasperi]

Oh no, I just created new message about this same
problem... this change in reminder features is a nasty
little problem and I really hope there's some kind of a
switch available to turn on "always on top" feature
again... why is it so hard to find ...?

By the way, you don't have this problem with the "silent
reminders" if you're using Outlook Web Access!

--Kasperi

 

[Kasperi]

This is taken from the Google newsgroups written by Julie Ohl ([email protected])

I just presented this same question to Microsoft and opened a paid inciden
on it. There is no way within Outlook 2000 to do this
They did give me this workaround, however, the code must be applied to eac
client that wants the reminders to pop active
Also, it does not pop the actual Outlook reminder window to the top, bu
pops another reminder to the top, that when you click OK
your OL reminder becomes active. Here is the workaround

a. Start Outlook
b. Go to Tools -> Macro -> Visual Basic Editor
c. Click the (General) drop down list and then choose "Application"
d. Click the drop down list next to "Application", and then choos
"Reminder" from the list
e. Please type in the following code

Private Sub Application_Reminder(ByVal Item As Object

Shell ("net send 127.0.0.1 Reminder"

End Su

f. Set up an appointment with the reminder to test the result

NOTE: "net send" command will send a message to the machine, and pops up t
the top window. We may need to wait for a while before receiving the ne
send command