RE: Can't change default alarm reminder in Outlook 2007
Mary
you look it up in Help? Here's what I found: "For all-day events, the default
reminder time is 18 hours in advance. Although you can't change the default
for all of the all-day events you create, you can change the reminder time
individually on each appointment."
"edIndoproject" wrote:
> I am running Windows Vista Home Premium with Outlook 2007 on Toshiba
> laptop.
> I cannot change the default alarm period in the calendar from the 18 hours
> that is currently the default. I have gone to "tools" chose properties and
> there it has a default reminder box under preferences/calendar.When I change
> the time frame, hit apply and ok, and close, it remains as 18 hours, however
> the time frame I changed it to remains in the window when calendar
> preferences is re-opened.
>
> Is there a fix for this?
> Thanks in advance.
> Ed
>
EdIndoproject
Brian,
90% of my calendared events are not all day events, but the notification
time remains18 hours as though it were an all day event, no matter what my
"default" time is set to.
Any fixes?
Thanks,
Ed
"Brian Tillman" wrote:
> edIndoproject <ed.ma...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I am running Windows Vista Home Premium with Outlook 2007 on Toshiba
> > laptop.
> > I cannot change the default alarm period in the calendar from the 18
> > hours that is currently the default.
>
> That's because all day events have their reminder hard-coded to 18 hours.
> When you double-click in the month or week view (any view that does not show
> your time scale), you're creating an all day event.
> --
> Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]
>
>
Brian Tillman
>
> 90% of my calendared events are not all day events, but the
> notification time remains18 hours as though it were an all day event,
> no matter what my "default" time is set to.
> Any fixes?
Depends on what view you're using when you create the event and how you
create it.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]
EdIndoproject
Well, I either click on the day of month in the calendar and create an
appointment, or from the email view, I send a copy of the email to calendar
and it opens an event and I type in the details in either mode of time of
appointment etc. In neither of these methods does the default alarm time
change for the 18 hours it is set at.
It would seem no matter how I arrive at an appointment and change it from
an all day event that the default time should change to what I've chosen.
Ed
Brian Tillman
> Well, I either click on the day of month in the calendar and create an
> appointment,
And, as I already said, this creates an all-day event, which has a
hard-coded 18 hour reminder default. Use a Day view or click the New button
if you want an event with your default reminder time.
> or from the email view, I send a copy of the email to
> calendar and it opens an event and I type in the details in either
> mode of time of appointment etc. In neither of these methods does
> the default alarm time change for the 18 hours it is set at.
When I drag a message from my Inbox to my Calendar folder, I get an event
that is one time-scale division long with a starting time of the next
closest time division; in other words, exactly what I see when clicking New
while viewing the calendar. If, however, I open my Calendar in another
window And display it in the Month view, then drag a message from Inbox to a
day in the calendar window, the event is a non-all-day event with my default
reminder but whose duration is from midnight to midnight. If I display the
calendar in the Week view (with a time scale), and do the same thing, the
event is an ordinary event with my default reminder, starting at the first
working hour of my day and lasting one time scale division.
> It would seem no matter how I arrive at an appointment and change it
> from an all day event that the default time should change to what
> I've chosen.
Apparently Outlook doesn't work the way you want it to. When the event
creation window opens as an all-day event, the default reminder will be 18
hours. Unchecking the "All day" box won't automatically change the default
reminder.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]