How do I set a reminder, not an appointment?

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    - Recurring Meeting - End date must be before 11/10/2008 I am trying to schedule a meeting on a conference room calendar that we have set up as a resource. It will not let me schedule past 11/10/2008. I received the following message: Your meeting request was declined. It did not specify an end date. The end date must be before 11/10/2008. All times listed are in the following time zone: Eastern Standard Time _____ Sent by Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 We are using Exchange Server 2007, Outlook 2007 and Entourage 2008. This issue does not occur when sending a recurring meeting to individuals. This date does occur close to Daylight Savings Time ending but I cannot think that would be an issue. Any suggestions why this is occuring would be appreciated. Sandy Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99398
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    - how do I sync Outlook 2007 calender and a palm TX calender Using outlook 2007 And latest desktop version of Palm Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99396
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    - drag/resize appointment in 15min increments Hello, i'd like to drag/resize my appointments in 15min increments. When the Calendar view is set to 30min increments you can see that a appointment for 8:15 is between 8:00 and 8:30 but with resizing you can only got to the 30min increments. And when i set my Calendar to 15min i can only see about 7 hours of the day which is not enaugh. When i set the fontsize down to see more of the day you cant read the subjects anymore. Any Tips? Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99392
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    - Recurring calendar events don't archive (Outlook 2003) I have some recurring meetings that I set up to run 5-6 months or longer (ex. weekly staff meeting). In order to manage the size of my email folders, I have auto-archive setup to only keep 4 weeks of history, before moving items to my archive mail file. I have noticed that recurring events don't archive until the entire series has completed, so some meetings that are setup with no end date will never archive. Is there a way around that? I would like all my calendar events to archive after 4 weeks. Thanks! Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99391
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    - Sub Calendar Can I create an entry in my calendar and a sub calendar (that I share) at the same time? Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99387
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    - Meeting organiser has left organisation - who is coming to my meet OK, I've read all the posts I can find on meeting organisers and the consensus seems to be that if the organiser has gone away, recreate the meeting. Putting aside how ridiculous that is for the moment, all I want to know is who has accepted or declined the meeting. I don't need to change the meeting in any way. If someone emails me through outlook calendar as a response to the meeting, I can see the list of accepted/tentative/declined etc. So the information is still there. Is there any way I can access it? Probably not I'm guessing, but I'd like confirmation. Thanks Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99386
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    - Meeting labeling When I send a meeting notice to my wife the label I've attached seems to get lost and when she accepts the meeting notice the color coding (label) must be reset. Is there a way to automatically have the label stay with the meeting notice? Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99382
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    - appointment appears as text OK I'm not sure how to describe this so let me start at a basic point and give some background. I have Office 2003 running on my main laptop and my wife's desktop. I have a LAN that connects our PCs as well as two other PCs. The golden rule is that if some event is not on my calendar it may not happer or will be bumpted by another event. If I make an entry in my calendar I "invite" my wife and then with the click of a button she can add it to her calendar. She can also create an entry on her calendar and invite me and with one click I've added it to my calendar. So far all is good (BTW the invities are being sent via email I DO NOT have an exchange server installed nor have I ever had one installed0. The other day I made several entries in my calendar and invited my wife to each. As normal all appeared in her inbox but then we ran into a problem. A couple of them appeared very normal and she could just click on the icon and add them to her calendar. Two of the invites appeared as all text, there are no icons in the invites. Thus she was not able to add them to her calendar and deleted them. On my system I changed the time by one minute thus forcing a resend of the two entries and again they appeared as all text messages in her inbox. Any idea what is going on and what I do to resolve the issue? On both systems is WinXP Pro Office 2003 I've downloade all the latest updates from MS and they have been applied without issue. Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99378
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    - 6 column calendar in Outlook 2007 is "Compress Weekend Days" available in Outlook 2007? I have looked for it and cannot find it and would much prefer to be able to print a 6 column calendar than a 7 column calendar. Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99374
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    - Duplicate Meeting requests I have a user who keeps getting duplicate and triplicate meeting request. The user utilizes both a laptop and desktop both running Outlook 2007 SP1 in cached exchange mode. None of the meetings are recurring. When users send him meeting request the duplicate shows him as being the organizer and the only attendee. User has two delegates both with editor access. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99370
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    - Appointments Why do I get appointments sent to somebody else? Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99368
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    - Outlook won't stop sending Calendar Summary to mobile I had set up calendar summaries to be sent to my mobile daily. I recently bought a pda, so I do not need calendar summaries sent anymore. I removed everything from "Notifications" and "Mobile Options" under the Mobile Preferences. When I click on those buttons, it says "Outlook Mobile Service is not configured". Yet, everyday Outlook tries to send a Calendar Summary to my mobile. I get an error message, "Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients". Why is Outlook still trying to send Calendar Summaries? Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99363
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    - How do I restore my Outlook Calendar prior to last PDA sync? My smartphone (AT&T Tilt) Calendar had a sync problem and started repeating appointments while deleting others. When I went to sync with my PC's Outlook calendar it corrupted my PC's Outlook calendar. How do I get my original PC's Outllook calendar restored (version prior to last sync)? Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99362
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    - Default calendar view I thought that I knew more then this, but I need help. How can I set the default on the calendar to always open to the Week View? -- DCR Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99360
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    - sometime creating appointment cannot include signature Outlook 2007 When I create an appointment sometime I am able to go to insert and under include there is an option to include one of my signatures. Sometimes it is there sometime it is not. Does anyone understand why this happens and how to assure that i can add my signature everytime Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99358
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    - How do I reduce the folder size of my calendar? I was wondering if anyone knows how I can delete past attachments of/or calendar items that are causing my calendar data size to be 5MB. Yes it is a collection of 2.5 years of using Outlook. However I want to be able to go back and delete anything that is old cumbersome and I don't care if I delete it. (Trying to reduce the size of my total Outlook storage allocation at work) Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99354
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    - Are "Link" Icons available in appointments In the KeyCalendar there are very useful icons that are indicators of and links to connected to the appointment. These are similar to the Alarm and Repeat icons that show up. Is there a setting or plugin that allows this so show in the Outlook Calendar? Carlos (:>) Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99348
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    - Appointments shown as busy I've started sharing a calender with a colleague (both using Outlook 2007 but no server). The other person can only see the appointments as busy not what the appointment is. Is there a way to change this so that my colleague can actually see what the appointment is? Thanks Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99347
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    - Outlook 2007 new appointment date always reverts back to today's d When I select a date in the future and make an appointment on that date by clicking on a time for the appointment, the appointment disappears from the future date and appears on the current date. Any ideas? Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99339
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    - understanding calendar publishing Ok I am trying to understand how to use calendaring. Here is what I want to do. My calendar at work I publish it and subscribe to it at home. Now that is working for the most part. Now here is question one: every 20 min or so Outlook does a send/receive and the calendar is updated, sometimes it does not update my calendar at home. What should I look for when it does not update like it should? The calendar that I publish is named Calendar-Publish and my default calendar is Calendar. Question two: I want both my default and my publish calendar at work to be synchronized all the time. How can I do this? If I publish my default calendar, I can only get a part of it on the internet. I need the entire calendar to publish every day. I know this is a long question but it is the only way that I know to try to get you to understand what I am doing and what I want to do. Any and all help is greatly appreciated. Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99338
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    - Outlook 2007 Error While working in Calendar, if I click on a specific date from the mini-month calendar in the upper left, an error message pops up stating an error has occurred and the program needs to close. There is a check box that if checked reopens Outlook very quickly. The option to send a report to Microsoft then appears. What is really weird is the error only occurs for any date more than 14 days from today's date. All other Outlook functions seem to be operating normally. Any thoughts? Thanks. Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99335
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    - Unable to remove reminders Hi Using Outlook 2007 with service pack 1 installed Suddenly I am not able to dismiss any reminders. The message I get is "Cannot turn off the reminder. You may be reminded again. The end date you entered occurs before the start date" I've searched the internet for an answear on this one, and found one describing how to use the MFCMAPI tool to remove the problem reminders. I did get rid of the reminders using this tool, but the problem came back again on my first booking in the calendar. Does anyone have a solution to this one. -- -Jan Ivar Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99334
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    - Accessing Shared calendars in Outlook 2003 Web Access Is it possible to view shared calendars via outlook web access? If so, how is this done? I know that calendars, contacts, and tasks can be shared but I can't find how I can view a shared calendar using outlook 2003 web access? Can anyone help? Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99333
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    - identical calender meeting appearing twice side by side When viewing managers calendar in my outlook , sometimes an incomming email has added a meeting to calendar which then appears twice (side by side) both identical. If I open one and accept it is treated independantly. if I delete one both copies disappear. Manager also has 2 copies added to that day. How can I stop two views of appointment/meeting showing. Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99329
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    - viewing private calendar entries The owner of our company wants to be able to view calendar entries for everyone in the company, even if those entries are marked 'PRIVATE.' I'm having trouble figuring this out - is there a global way to do this? Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99322
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    - Default and Mailbox Calendars... My company is one a server with the ability to share virtually any piece of information on any of the three computers in the office. Two of us work full time and currently the boss is the only one with capabilities to share his calendar, etc. He used to be able to share his default calendar on the network but a few months ago his pc crashed and so we were forced to purchase a new tower. Our tech has been employed by us for only a few months and he did all the setup for the new tower to get everything transferred from old tower to the new, etc. Now, my boss is only able to share a calendar that is labeled as Calendar in Mailbox... Mine is the same way. Is there any way to fix this? Are we maybe not sharing all the information that we should be through the network? Please help, this is driving my boss and I crazy!! Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99321
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    - default meeting length how do I change the default from 30mins to 1hr? Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99319
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    - show holidays on custom calendars i have downloaded holidays and they show in the list of annual events. The also appear in the standard calendar. Trouble is they do not appear in any custom calendars (folders) that i create. Anyway to populate custom calendars with holidays? thanks much Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99318
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    - Keep meeting on calendar after declining invite Is there a way to keep the meeting on your calendar after you decline an invite. I still want to know when the meeting is just in case I will be able to make it. I don't want to use the 'tentative' option to give myself a maybe on attending. I'm using MS Outlook 2003. TIA Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99312
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    - Outlook Calendar Toolbars Using Outlook 2003 on MSW 2K, the Calendar toolbar will not save the action/standard buttons, Accept, Decline, etc.......or the Send button. I can move them to the existing toolbars but they don't stay once the window closes. I can create a new toolbar and add them, but once the window closes and I reopen, the new toolbar is there, but it's empty. Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99305
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    - Calendar Permissions I have a user that wants to share his Outlook 2003 calendar with other coworkers. He wants his coworkers to be able to view only the subject line of his calendar items. He doesn't want them to be able to open and read the details of each calendar item. Currently, we are able to set "Read Only" permissions. However, this allows his coworkers the ability to open the meeting/appointment/event and read more details about it. He doesn't want that. We have also tried setting his calendar items as "Private". When you do this, the subject line says something general like "Private Item". It doesn't give you the acutal subject line. Is there a way for him to be able to set calendar permissions for his coworkers to only be able to read the subject line of his calendar items? Let me know if you need more information. Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99304
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    - How to interact with outlook calendar on a remote computer? Hi, the manager of my company wants his secretary to be able to remotly insert/modify appointment on the outlook calendar on his pc . In which way i can do this? We don't have exchange, is there another way? Thanks. Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99300
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    - Calendar items not showing I have a user on our network where calendar items previous to 25th Sept 2007 are not appearing in their calendar. I have tried running in safe mode, recreating their profile both with and without cached exchange mode, running with /cleanreminder, reinstalled Office, recreated NT profile but nothing seems to work. Any help greatly appriciated. Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99299
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    - could not set Prevent meeting requests in outlook2003 sp3, I would like to set Prevent meeting request replies function when I wrote a meeting request, from the Outlook help online I knew that I need to set in menu actions-- request reponses, but from the actions menu I could not see th e request reponse menu. could you tell me how to relize the function? thanks very much! Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99298
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    - Outlook Calendar I copied my old .pst file, specifically calendar, into the default calendar. Initially, it was showing up as Calendar. Now it is appearing as Calendar (2). Are there two copies of my calendar? How do I get rid of the (2)? I thought that you couldn't change the default name, Calendar? Also, when I migrated my old information into the new, dates where I had activity prior to April 2008 are not 'bolded'. I have to search day-to-day in December for example to see where I had activity. Is there are way to change it so that all dates that had activity are bolded? Thanks. Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99292
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    - How do i reset my Calendar to show appointments. I some how tuned off the ability to see appointments on the monthly or weekly view. It only shows up if you select the day of the appointment. Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99291
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    - Share secondary Outlook 2007 calendar with an Outlook 2003 user Ex I am on Exchange 2003 SP2 and I am using Office Outlook 2007. I need to share a calendar that is not my main calendar with 2 users on the same server but running outlook 2003. any ideas? Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99288
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    - Outlook makes every appointment recurring How do I fix this. Its driving me crazy? Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99283
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    - Outlook Calendar to Powerpoint Slide need MORE help.... Trying to get my outlook calendar into a powerpoint presentation. I have seen two questions answered on this telling the questioners to use a template at http://www.slipstick.com/addins/calendar_print.asp. I need more help than this. What does use a template mean? Where are the templates on this link as I cannot find them. Help, sinking fast and boss really wants that calendar of his in a ppt file SOON. Robin Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99281
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    - Delete personal calendar Hello, I have a Mailbox Calendar and a Personal Calendar, but i only want one calendar for all my appointments/meetings. When i accept meetings from senders in my personal folder (i have rules that move the messages to my personal folder), it creates a calendar in my personal folder. I don't want this and want it to add the meeting to the Mailbox calendar. How do i do this? Also, how do i delete the personal folder calendar. It will not let me right-click and delete. Thanks in advance, Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99278
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    - Calender - Holiday Events (2008 into future). In Calender options, I have added holiday events, which showup in 2007 and past years. Although do not for 2008 and into the future. I have deleted and tried to re-add several times unsuccessful. Any help or ideas? Thanks, Doug. Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99277
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    - Cannot Invite attendees in OWA One of our employees gets a permission denied when he tries to add an attendee to a calendar event in OWA. He can invite attendees Outlook with no problem. What might cause this is OWA? papparuff -- John V. Ruff Applications Support Analyst SolutionsIQ www.SolutionsIQ.com 10785 Willows Road NE Redmond, WA 98052 425.250.3484 Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99276
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    - Remote meeting request emails with no buttons Our company tries to send out meeting requests to other companies outside of our Exchange server and all they get is an email message with no buttons to accept or reject the meeting request, can anyone help? -- Thanks, Doug. Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99274
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    - Outlook sending updates for meetings that haven't been updated I have an odd issue. I have had a number of people report that Outlook will send updates for meetings by itself. We are using Outlook 2007 and Exchange 2003, and these people set up a meeting and invite multiple people and everything works as normal. Then, sometime in the future, Outlook automatically sends out an update to the meeting (nothing has actually changed about the meeting, but it sends an update none the less) to everyone invited to the meeting. The meeting organizer is always logged into Outlook at the time, but sometimes isn't even at their desk when the update is sent. They only find out later when they start receiving acceptance emails about the update. When you look in sent items, there is an email that was sent from outlook for the update, but the person didn't send it. This has happened to multiple people, multiple times, with multiple meetings, so I know it isn't just a single person doing something weird. Anyone have any ideas on what could be causing this? Thanks. Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99273
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    - Calendar deletion Hi, I have been given permissions to see another persons calendar. Now that person has left the company. When I go to File-Open, that persons calendar is listed there as it always was. My question is - How can I get rid of it there? thanks Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99268
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    - First Day of Week option Please let me know the functional aspect of 'First day of week' option in MS Outlook. I want to know which functionalities of MS Outlook 2003 does this option affect. I have some idea that it affects Calendar view and Recurring Appointemnts. Please share more details. -- Vikrant Agarwal Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99260
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    - Meeting request Hi I am using MS Outlook 2003 and 2007. I have a situation here. When someone send me a meeting request. Normally, before i accept or decline the meeting. the event is added to my calender automaticaly with tentative signed. Sometime I found this is confusing. Can I disable this option? so the event is on my calender only if i have accept the meeting. I have tested both version 2003 and 2007 are the same. Thank you in advance Regards Huazhi Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99259
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    - How to import a ics calendaring with attach in Outlook 2003? Hi, all, I have an ics file, and use Notepat open this file, it contains ATTACH: component. I can use Outlook 2007 import this file successfully. But in Outlook 2003, after import calendar ics file, the attached file disappeared. I've made another test. In Outlook 2003, create an appointment and add an attached file in calendar. Save as FileName.ics in local disk. Delete the calendar in Outlook. Then, import the FileName.ics, the import calendar without attach. Need someone's help to explain what happen about this performance. Thanks a lot, Daniel Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99258
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    - How to change default font for appointments? Is there a way to change the default font for the notes section of appointments? It's really obnoxious having to change it every single time. Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99255
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    - Outlook Connector with Windows Live Hotmail Plus account I am using the Outlook Connector with a free Windows Live Hotmail account. I would like to sync my Hotmail calendar with Outlook. Will this work with a $20 per year Windows Live Hotmail Plus account or will I need a $10 per month MSN Premium account? Tag: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? Tag: 99243

There seems to be no easy way to set a simple reminder for myself. The best
I've found is to set up an appointment, set it to 0
minutes/personal/private/time free. Am I missing something, or is this a big
hole in outlook?

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Re: How do I set a reminder, not an appointment? by Diane

Diane
Tue May 13 19:30:53 PDT 2008

or you could use a task. Outlook is not an alarm clock - it has no way to
set a reminder that is not attached to an item.

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"Heber" <Heber@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:85A01350-9FC2-4A69-A462-19B81B52678C@microsoft.com...
> There seems to be no easy way to set a simple reminder for myself. The
> best
> I've found is to set up an appointment, set it to 0
> minutes/personal/private/time free. Am I missing something, or is this a
> big
> hole in outlook?

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