how to find birthdays with advanced find

[Dirk Stevens]

Hi,

I am trying to find people in my contacts folder who have a birthday
specified , using advanced find. In the tool I select the tab"advanced". Then
I select as field "birthday" from personal fields. Add as condition "next
month" and then press "add to list", and do "Find now". Although I have
customers with birthdays in August (ie the next month), the find tool does
not give me any contacts. Why? Is this a bug? I have already had a look at
the KB, but I did not see anything relevant.

Thanks for any info,
Dirk Stevens

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Why? Because what you enter in the contact form is the *birthdate* not the date of the next birthday occurrence. Outlook has no feature for finding next month's birthdays, other than looking on the Calendar folder.

 

[rrifkind]

When I enter in the birthdate field it adds the current year -- so I assume
it wants the birth year as well -- is there a way to create a "birthday"
field that does not include the year?

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

When I enter in the birthdate field it adds the current year -- so I assume
it wants the birth year as well -- is there a way to create a "birthday"
field that does not include the year?

No. People are born on specific dates in specific years. If all you want is
a calendar entry that marks the day, then what year you use is insignificant,
but I always use the real year in which the person was born.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Assuming you know it - otherwise, pick a year to start. It's probably less
confusing to pick the current year rather than trying to guess the year
coworkers were born - eventually you might forget you guessed at the year
and wonder why its not the correct year.

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