Global change to Reminder period?

[Lindsay Graham]

When my wife switched recently from Outlook 2000 (or 2002?) to Outlook
2003, many of her Reminder periods appear to have changed arbitrarily.
Is there a global mechanism that would enable her to change *all*
Reminder periods to "1 day"?

Lindsay Graham
Canberra, Australia

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]]

When my wife switched recently from Outlook 2000 (or 2002?) to Outlook 2003,
many of her Reminder periods appear to have changed arbitrarily. Is there a
global mechanism that would enable her to change *all* Reminder periods to
"1 day"?

Are you talking about how much toime before an event that the treminder will
fire? FOr all-day events with reminders, that value is 18 hours and it is
hard-coded. For timed events, the default is whatever you set in
Tools>Options>Default Reminder.

 

[Lindsay Graham]

Are you talking about how much toime before an event that the treminder
will fire? FOr all-day events with reminders, that value is 18 hours
and it is hard-coded. For timed events, the default is whatever you set
in Tools>Options>Default Reminder.

Yes. I was only talking about timed events, and we had set the default
to 1 day. But my question was about changing the reminder period for
all *existing* events to 1 day -- is there a global mechanism for doing
that?

Lindsay Graham

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]]

Yes. I was only talking about timed events, and we had set the default to 1
day. But my question was about changing the reminder period for all
*existing* events to 1 day -- is there a global mechanism for doing that?

Not without third-party software or code you write yourself. There could be
an example at http://www.outlookcode.com/ and I know there are calendar tools
you cna purchase. See this for suggestions:
http://www.slipstick.com/addins/calendar.asp