MSO2003: Multiple birthdays?

[Andrew J. Rozsa]

I am a new (and reluctant) user of Outlook 2003. Learning my way
through various books. Can't seem to find information about how I
could add extra birthdays in a Contacts entry. If I enter the
birthdays in a note, they won't transfer to Calendar. My alternative:
create a new contact for every person in the family. It gets pretty
tedious with multiple children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren
per family.

I searched through "Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Inside Out" for
hours... :-(

Any pointers to a how-to or alternative solutions will be greatly
appreciated. Would be nice if the new fields (if they can added) were
mappable to KeySuite.

Best,

Andrew

 

[Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook]]

You'll have to create seperate contacts. You might want to group them
together using the Company field

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Or just create the birthdays as appointments in the calendar. You can
associate the birthdays with one contact to keep them together by family.

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[Andrew J. Rozsa]

:|You'll have to create seperate contacts. You might want to group them
:|together using the Company field
:|
:|[...]
:|> through various books. Can't seem to find information about how I
:|> could add extra birthdays in a Contacts entry. If I enter the

Thanks. That's what I have been doing. I was hoping for a less
labor-intensive method. Oh, well....

Best,

Andrew

 

[Andrew J. Rozsa]

:|Or just create the birthdays as appointments in the calendar. You can
:|associate the birthdays with one contact to keep them together by family.

Hmmm... now that's an idea.. I could set it to start warning me a week
ahead, so I can remember to buy cards.

Thanks, Diane, for the thoughtful input.

Best,

Andrew