Disable Birthday Reminders

[Workaholic]

Hi,
Please can somebody help me? I have added contact information into
Outlook, and synchronised this data onto a PDA phone. It's fantastic,
as it allows me to carry my contacts and my calendar with me wherever
I go. The issue I have though, is that Outlook has automatically (and
without me requesting this) added recurring reminders for each
contact's birthday into the calendar. This would be fine, but the
reminder alarm is going off at midnight for each occurrence. Please
can somebody tell me how I can retain the birthday information within
the contact, but either remove the calendar item, or better still
retain the calendar item but remove the alarm reminder?

Thanks

 

[Judy Gleeson \(MVP Outlook\)]

In Outlook, look through your Calendar and see who has a Birthday which has
a reminder (they show as All Day Events and will have a bell icon to say it
has a reminder).

Go to that Contact (use the Contact lookup window and save some time.)

Either turn off the reminder or set it x.5d eg 4.5d = 4 1/2 days. This
helps PDA users who are sick of midnight reminders! It will go off at 12
midday.

Regards

Judy Gleeson
MVP Outlook
Trainer and Consultant

There are various articles about using Outlook here: www.judygleeson.com
Canberra, Australia

 

[Workaholic]

Thanks. I was really hoping to find a setting to turn this off, but I
was at least able to do an Advanced Find on the calendar for
"birthday", select all items, right-click and choose Open Items, and
then manually set each one to be no reminder. I will have to remember
that if I add a birthday to a contact in future, then I will have to
remember to remove the reminder, and I will have to do that manually.
It seems like a real oversight in Outlook, but at least I have sorted
this out.

Thanks for your advice

 

[Judy Gleeson \(MVP Outlook\)]

yes it's not a great solution.

Regards

Judy Gleeson
MVP Outlook
Trainer and Consultant

There are various articles about using Outlook here: www.judygleeson.com
Canberra, Australia