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Old September 15th 08, 10:11 AM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.calendaring
plinkykev
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Default How do I change the reminder default for "events"?


Seriously, the first post about this is from 2005, and Micro$oft is still
not looking at fixing it, or offering a patch for it?! Seems to me like the
Outlook development team don't sync to their phones or PDA's at all, because
if they did, they would sure fix it fast after being woken up at 6:00AM on a
few mornings because of this stupid setting!!!

How about doing a Google search for: Outlook / all day / 18 hour and see the
*MANY* other people out there upset about this too!

Please look to fix this soon - my kids and I are fed-up with early morning
alarms...
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Old September 23rd 08, 03:31 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.calendaring
Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]
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Default How do I change the reminder default for "events"?

"plinkykev" wrote in message
...

Seriously, the first post about this is from 2005, and Micro$oft is still
not looking at fixing it, or offering a patch for it?! Seems to me like
the
Outlook development team don't sync to their phones or PDA's at all,
because
if they did, they would sure fix it fast after being woken up at 6:00AM on
a
few mornings because of this stupid setting!!!

How about doing a Google search for: Outlook / all day / 18 hour and see
the
*MANY* other people out there upset about this too!

Please look to fix this soon - my kids and I are fed-up with early morning
alarms...


How hard can it be to fix the reminder time and not just accept the default?
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

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Old October 1st 08, 02:32 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.calendaring
Jonas P
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Default How do I change the reminder default for "events"?

Dear Mr. Tillman:
One can indeed change the reminder of one's own all-day appointments to a
more suitable advance notice, or disabled default reminders altogether, but
for the users in my organization, most of whom use Windows Mobile devices, it
is too much to ask for the to change the reminder of every all-day meeting
request they receive as well!

Especially since they are not even given the option to change it in the
invitation e-mail. They would have to accept the invitation, then go to the
calendar, open the same item again and then change the reminder.

Microsoft's combination of...
1. Enabling default reminders by default [sic]
2. Allowing for the user's changing of only one out of two default reminder
times
3. Allowing the meeting organizer's reminder setting to override the
invitee's default preference without any visual cues or an easy way to change
said reminder when receiving the invite
4. Choosing to set the almost idotic hard coded default reminder to 06:00
(-18 h) for an all-day appointment
5. Not hearing user complaints for the last, say, five years
....is quite depressing for its customers.

Especially for the ones using Windows Mobile and getting woken up by
reminders for appointments they did not even organize.

Sincerely,
Jonas


Hearing user

Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

How hard can it be to fix the reminder time and not just accept the default?
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]


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Old October 1st 08, 02:53 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.calendaring
Jonas P[_2_]
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Default How do I change the reminder default for "events"?

[Sorry for my two grammar mistakes there in the first paragraph of my
previous post.]

Dear Mr. Tillman (again):

I just read similar posts from you in the Outlook Forum over at
office-outlook.com, and I can but conclude that you do not work in a large
organization where you frequently receive meeting requests from others, with
reminders set.

Or maybe you do not have a Windows Mobile device waking you up; or maybe you
are up and about at 06:00 every day (including Sundays, in case you receive
all-day meeting requests for Mondays).

Sorry about getting fresh, but judging from your previous posts, it seems
you are all into that thing. )

Sincerely,
Jonas
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Old October 1st 08, 04:35 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.calendaring
Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]
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Default How do I change the reminder default for "events"?

"Jonas P" wrote in message
...

I just read similar posts from you in the Outlook Forum over at
office-outlook.com, and I can but conclude that you do not work in a large
organization where you frequently receive meeting requests from others,
with
reminders set.


Your conclusion would be wrong. I work for a company with 300,000 employees
and I usually accept (or reject) 15 to 20 meeting requests each week. I
have always had the ability to override the reminder BEFORE accepting the
request and I always change it to suit myself if I don't like what the
request contains.

Or maybe you do not have a Windows Mobile device waking you up; or maybe
you
are up and about at 06:00 every day (including Sundays, in case you
receive
all-day meeting requests for Mondays).


I do have a Windows Mobile device and it never wakes me up because I always
mute it before going to bed. It takes all of two seconds.

Sorry about getting fresh, but judging from your previous posts, it seems
you are all into that thing. )


You can be as fresh or as stale as you wish.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

 




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