When Outlook was first conceived there were very few people using Activesync
with their mobile phones / PDAs etc. so there would not have been many people
getting disturbed by their PCs alarming at 6:00 am. Now that there are many
people synchronising their calendars onto the Windows Mobile devices that
they keep beside their beds at night I would think that there are a lot of
very frustrated people out there silently cursing Outlook .

People use the most convenient feature of their software and double clicking
to set up an All Day Event (for say a Birthday, or a day out of the office)
is the quickest, simplest thing to do. As it's quick and simple most people
won't spend the time looking through all of the options to change the
reminder time for the Event. Since the principle of configurable reminders
has been set for apointments can we not have an update to make Event
reminders configurable and to save a lot of cursing at 6:00 am each time the
alarm for a next day Event goes off ?

--
Andre Peppiatt (Director, Large IT Outsourcing company)


"Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

"Kev" wrote in message
...

This was never a problem for me as my PC was usually off at 6am. I now
use a
Windows Mobile 6.1 phone with ActiveSync and I use the phone as an alarm
clock. It is annoying to be woke up by a reminder at 6am, an hour before
my
alarm goes off. I even get woken up on a weekend when I need a lie in!!
For
some reason it never did this on my Windows Mobile 2003SE phone. I have a
lot of planned events in the future and am loathed to have to go through
my
Calendar for the forseeable future to change my reminders from 18 hours to
0.5 day. Poor planning on a planning application but certainly not enough
to
convert to Apple.

Ask far as I can tell, all-day events always have an 18 hour default
reminder (when default reminders are enabled) and it can't be changed.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

"Andre Peppiatt" wrote in message
...

People use the most convenient feature of their software and double
clicking
to set up an All Day Event (for say a Birthday, or a day out of the
office)
is the quickest, simplest thing to do. As it's quick and simple most
people
won't spend the time looking through all of the options to change the
reminder time for the Event. Since the principle of configurable
reminders
has been set for apointments can we not have an update to make Event
reminders configurable and to save a lot of cursing at 6:00 am each time
the
alarm for a next day Event goes off ?

Open a support incident with Microsoft and complain. If enough people do,
perhaps they'll listen.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

I too have been looking at the default time for events. Because I have synced
three different sources I have alarms going off a 23:45 as well as 06:00.
I think the easiest way to sort this out is for the default alarm time to be
set to the User's working hours setting I used to have this function when I
used my Psion 5mx so it is possible.

KentishScot

"Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

"Andre Peppiatt" wrote in message
...

People use the most convenient feature of their software and double
clicking
to set up an All Day Event (for say a Birthday, or a day out of the
office)
is the quickest, simplest thing to do. As it's quick and simple most
people
won't spend the time looking through all of the options to change the
reminder time for the Event. Since the principle of configurable
reminders
has been set for apointments can we not have an update to make Event
reminders configurable and to save a lot of cursing at 6:00 am each time
the
alarm for a next day Event goes off ?

Open a support incident with Microsoft and complain. If enough people do,
perhaps they'll listen.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

"KentishScot" wrote in message
...

I too have been looking at the default time for events. Because I have
synced
three different sources I have alarms going off a 23:45 as well as 06:00.
I think the easiest way to sort this out is for the default alarm time to
be
set to the User's working hours setting I used to have this function when
I
used my Psion 5mx so it is possible.

You'll have to contact Microsoft directly and tell them that if you hope to
ever see it.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

Dear Friends,

You guys are lucky you get it at 6 am in the morning. I'm in India and I get
it at 12 midnight (Windows Mobile). It's quite disappointing to know that
Microsoft did not provide any solution to this - usually they keep all sorts
of settings in the registry and this one couldn't have been any more
difficult.

Ajit Thadhani

"Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

"KentishScot" wrote in message
...

I too have been looking at the default time for events. Because I have
synced
three different sources I have alarms going off a 23:45 as well as 06:00.
I think the easiest way to sort this out is for the default alarm time to
be
set to the User's working hours setting I used to have this function when
I
used my Psion 5mx so it is possible.

You'll have to contact Microsoft directly and tell them that if you hope to
ever see it.
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]