Comments on: Add Birthday and anniversary calendar events automatically in Outlook 2007

By: adam

adam — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:31:52 +0000

@mark
That is a very unhelpful and frankly ludicrous comment. I use Outlook for work because I have to (I think that’s true of most users of Outlook). I have over 200 contacts, each has a birthday entry. Of course I don’t care when their birthday is and why on earth shouldn’t I be able to remove them easily and not have them appear in the first place? No, it’s not a bug, but it’s very poor design.

By: Miguel

Miguel — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:00:49 +0000

Hello everyone!
Seems that I am having the opposite problem.I really want to pass the birthdays that I have on my contacts to the calendar, but outlook is not doing it at all. Does anyone knows if there is a special feature to turn on?
Regards
Miguel

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 02:12:27 +0000

For those of you who ridiculously believe that this is a bug or have such a strong negative reaction to the very idea of being reminded of a contact’s birthday, my response to you is to use a different program.

By: Clint Collier

Clint Collier — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:09:09 +0000

This “concept” of putting birthdates and anniversaries on my calendar is outrageous. Another example of Microsoft’s attitude of “we know how to manage your life better than you do”.

I have hundreds of contacts who I download from a data base and their birthdays come with the data. Believe it or not, Microsoft, I really don’t want a reminder for them. They just aren’t that close. I simply want their phone numbers and addresses.

By: kay

kay — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:58:04 +0000

I have imported a client list from an CSV file and excel file into my contacts within Outlook. After custom mapping the fields, birthdays are recorded under each contact but they are not sent to the calender for reminders. Is there a way to automatically upload every birthday from all 655+ contacts without doing each one individually? I have outlook 03 and 07, for the record.

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:05:16 +0000

I also would like to know how to turn off the automatic appointments. I use the anniversary field to track start dates for hundreds of volunteers and am tired of the tediously individually deleting them, especially when I import lists from others that have dozens of dates.

By: Winkyboy

Winkyboy — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:38:30 +0000

DEAR GOD why can’t I stop Outlook from adding these calendar events?!

Seriously, I do not want this feature. My feelings for it go far beyond hate primarily because while using a Windows Mobile device, EVENTUALLY your birthday reminders will drift, or span multiple days, or both! I see this as a MAJOR screw-up on Microsoft’s part.

By: Nagarajn

Nagarajn — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 08:31:32 +0000

Me too have the same problem. Out of 5 birthdays in a day, only 3 picked by calendar. Do not know why….

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:55:46 +0000

By: RD

RD — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:45:41 +0000

Whenever I try to add a birthday to an existing contact it makes the event “Lastname, Firstname’s Birthday.” When I create a new contact and include the birthday, it does “Firstname Lastname’s Birthday”. Both of them are filed as “Last, First.” Is there a way to decide which it uses for creating the birthdays? I prefer First Last’s Birthday. I’m using Outlook 2003

By: yvok

yvok — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:24:38 +0000

This post is not a Tip, but rather a ‘Bug report’.
I can not turn off these ‘automatic birthday reminders’ and there is no fast way to clean my Calendar from these ‘Outlook spam’ reminders (I have hundreds of them!)

Is anywhere a remedy for this bug (for Outlook 2007)?

By: DCLegal

DCLegal — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:04:24 +0000

Hi. Is there a way to force Contacts to add the dates to calendar? I accidentally deleted some dates from calendar and need to repopulate them from Contacts.

Thanks very much!

By: Dan DeBoer

Dan DeBoer — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:35:29 +0000

I tried entering a birthday for a contact, and it did not enter the reminder in my calendar. Is there some option I need to turn on or off to create the reminder?

I am using Outlook 2007 on a Windows XP machine.

By: Deraldo

Deraldo — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:21:32 +0000

Hi.
How could I avoid this? I do not want that the appointment is created.
thx in advance

By: Ashish Aggarwal

Ashish Aggarwal — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:13:36 +0000

Thnx Buddy it was really helpful information.