PROBLEM CREATING THE SIMPLEST EVENTS VIEW

[macbcn]

I want to view a list of the recurring events (such as birthdays) that I have
introduced in my calendar, and have them sorted by "date", chronologically. I
would like to have something like:

Subject Date
----------------------------------------------------------------
Maria's birthday January 5
John's birthday March 21
Kevin's birthday June 1
Louise's birthday Novemeber 10

This list is very simple, but there is no "Date" field, there is a "start
date", but it's showing the begining of the recurrence, which is year 1900,
totally useless info for this list.

Thanks for your help.

Iván

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Outlook simply can't do what you want because it does not store just the month and day for a birthday, but the full birth date.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[macbcn]

So does that mean that I cannot display a list of the events of the whole
year sorted chronologically within the year, including those with recurrences?

Thx / iván

 

[macbcn]

Even further, I shouldn't mind whether Outlook stores the month and the day,
or whether it stores the full birth date, nor the way it stores that, I'm a
user, shouldn't Outlook do something for me and not the other way around??

Outlook is the best, the biggest, and whatever else you want to add to this
list, so I can't be less than surprised and amazed with such an answer, dear
Sue. No matter how Outlook stores it, as a user I am not to know how to help
Outlook, but the other way around, or that's what I always thought. As an IT
professional, if Outlook does not store this information separatedly, for
sure it should be possible to display any items in a calendar sorted
chronologically within that view.

Hence, I cannot believe that Outlook does not allow me to display or print a
list with all the recurrent events of the year, sorted chronologically within
that year: what's happening month by month, and obviously I want to see
what's on the 5th day of a month before than seeing what's on the 9th of the
same month, even though the recurrence of the 9th started before than the one
on the 5th.


Thanks again / iván.

 

[macbcn]

Even further, I shouldn't mind whether Outlook stores the month and the day,
or whether it stores the full birth date, nor the way it stores that, I'm a
user, shouldn't Outlook do something for me and not the other way around??

Outlook is the best, the biggest, and whatever else you want to add to this
list, so I can't be less than surprised and amazed with such an answer, dear
Sue. No matter how Outlook stores it, as a user I am not to know how to help
Outlook, but the other way around, or that's what I always thought. As an IT
professional, if Outlook does not store this information separatedly, for
sure it should be possible to display any items in a calendar sorted
chronologically within that view.

Hence, I cannot believe that Outlook does not allow me to display or print a
list with all the recurrent events of the year, sorted chronologically within
that year: what's happening month by month, and obviously I want to see
what's on the 5th day of a month before than seeing what's on the 9th of the
same month, even though the recurrence of the 9th started before than the one
on the 5th.


Thanks again / iván.

 

[macbcn]

my apologies for repeating last msg, sorry.

thx / iván.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Correct. Outlook cannot display such a list.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]]

It's just a workaround, of course, but I created two custom fields for my
birthdays, anniversaries and holidays (actually I created the custom fields
for the whole Calendar folder and only filled them in for these days). I
created a Month field and used the naming convention of "01 - Jan", "02 -
Feb", etc. so the months would sort in the proper order. Then the Day field
holds the day of the month number. Like I said, maybe Outlook should do this
natively, but my workaround works for me for now.

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MVP - Outlook

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[macbcn]

Thanks for your reply, Jocelyn.

The problem is that surely any standard home user will drop Outlook before
getting there, and I find it unbelievable than an agenda cannot display a
list of items sorted chronologically per ocurrence... it sounds like having a
cellphone that cannot call numbers that cointain number "5"... what sense
does that have? nothing at all, especially bearing in mind that Outlook is
supposed to be the worldwide standard...


thx / iván.

 

[Jocelyn Fiorello [MVP - Outlook]]

Being that I am mostly a home user of Outlook, I wholeheartedly agree with
you

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MVP - Outlook

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