Need help creating a custom view in appointment view

[Jack B. Pollack]

Can someone help me design a custom view for re-occurring appointments
(birthdays) that sorts by month (without the year).

I am looking for a view that would list all the Jan events together, all the
Feb events together, etc. (the year doesn't matter since the events occur
every year). The only view I have been able to create is completely
chronological Jan-Dec 2004, Jan-Dec 2005 etc.

Thanks

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Outlook can't do that, because it doesn't separate the date out as a separate field that you can filter on.

 

[F.H. Muffman]

Outlook can't do that, because it doesn't separate the date out as a
separate field that you can filter on.

Tho, couldn't you pull the month out using a macro, put it in, say, the
Mileage field and just use the Windows scheduler to run outlook once a day
with the /autorun switch to fire off that macro?

Not that I'd want to write that code, but... =)

Well, ok, I'd do it for a fee.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

That might work, although /autorun has never worked for me. It also would take 12 filtered views, one for each month. But I don't think the o.p. was asking how to write code.

 

[Diane Poremsky]

You need to look for month names in the recurrence field:
http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/birthday.htm

 

[Jack B. Pollack]

Yeh, was just looking for a simple way to see the bdays for the current
month

 

[Jack B. Pollack]

Thanks. I'll give it a try when I get back to my computer.