sorting annual events view

[Paul D.Smith]

I have a list of birthdays set up as recurring annual events. How do I get
a date sorted list? Sorting by "recurrence" does an alphabetic sort of the
text describing it thus "every April 14" comes BEFORE "every January 2"

Thanks,
Paul DS.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I have a list of birthdays set up as recurring annual events. How do
I get a date sorted list? Sorting by "recurrence" does an alphabetic
sort of the text describing it thus "every April 14" comes BEFORE
"every January 2"

Sort by the Start date, assuming you added the birthday events to begin on
the day the people were born.

 

[Paul D.Smith]

Sort by the Start date, assuming you added the birthday events to begin on
the day the people were born.

But then the oldest person's birthday comes first and the youngest last - or
am I missing something? I'm looking for a "birthdays calendar" so I can
look at it and see the birthday's ordered throughout the year.

Paul DS.

 

[Brian Tillman]

But then the oldest person's birthday comes first and the youngest
last - or am I missing something? I'm looking for a "birthdays
calendar" so I can look at it and see the birthday's ordered
throughout the year.

Dates usually include the year, in my mind, but I understand what you're
saying now. I don't think that's possible in any table view. In the
Day/Week/Month view, you could filter on the word "Birthday" in the subject
or add all your birthdays to a "Birthday" category and then filter on that
so that, say, the month view shows only birthdays.

 

[Paul D.Smith]

Dates usually include the year, in my mind, but I understand what you're
saying now. I don't think that's possible in any table view. In the
Day/Week/Month view, you could filter on the word "Birthday" in the
subject or add all your birthdays to a "Birthday" category and then filter
on that so that, say, the month view shows only birthdays.

Glad to know I'm not going mad then ;-). It seems bizarre that since
Outlook has to calculate the "date at which the event triggers next", it's
not possible to list annual events like that.

Paul DS.