Reminder in outlook 2003 by flagging email can be set in past

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Dan1roda - 25 Jan 2006 16:40 GMT

Outlook 2003 11.6568.6568 SP2
Right click on email set reminder. I set it for today at 3:00 am instead of
3:00 pm. It was already 11:00 am when I set it.

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Brian Tillman - 25 Jan 2006 21:50 GMT

> Outlook 2003 11.6568.6568 SP2
> Right click on email set reminder. I set it for today at 3:00 am
> instead of 3:00 pm. It was already 11:00 am when I set it.

Is there a question or a suggestion in this anywhere, or do you just want to
state the facts?

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Dan1roda - 26 Jan 2006 03:36 GMT

I'm sorry, I thought it was obvious; why can reminders be set for a time that
has already past? The reminder will never be triggered.

> > Outlook 2003 11.6568.6568 SP2
> > Right click on email set reminder. I set it for today at 3:00 am
> > instead of 3:00 pm. It was already 11:00 am when I set it.
>
> Is there a question or a suggestion in this anywhere, or do you just want to
> state the facts?

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Brian Tillman - 26 Jan 2006 13:50 GMT

> I'm sorry, I thought it was obvious; why can reminders be set for a
> time that has already past? The reminder will never be triggered.

The most logical reason seems to me to be that the writers of Outlook didn't
implement a check, but I don't see why anyone should care. It certainly
doesn't hurt anything to set the reminder for some time in the past. I'd
like to know why you think it's an issue.

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Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook] - 26 Jan 2006 15:02 GMT

Older versions of Outlook didn't allow a reminder on an item in the past.
There were lots of complaints so it was changed in Outlook 2003. You can't
please everyone <shrug>. The reminder would fire immediately on a past due
reminder but if one doesn't want that it's certainly easy enough to kill the
reminder flag before saving the item. And how many people create past due
appointments very often?

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>> I'm sorry, I thought it was obvious; why can reminders be set for a
>> time that has already past? The reminder will never be triggered.
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> certainly doesn't hurt anything to set the reminder for some time in the
> past. I'd like to know why you think it's an issue.

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Dan1roda - 14 Feb 2006 22:40 GMT

Yes people don't often set a reminder in the past on purpose, but if you do
it by mistake you will never be notified of the important task. I can't
think of a reason why you would want to set a reminder in the past. Why
would people complain about that?

> Older versions of Outlook didn't allow a reminder on an item in the past.
> There were lots of complaints so it was changed in Outlook 2003. You can't
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> > certainly doesn't hurt anything to set the reminder for some time in the
> > past. I'd like to know why you think it's an issue.

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Dan1roda - 14 Feb 2006 22:41 GMT

If it is done by mistake you may miss an important task. No?

> > I'm sorry, I thought it was obvious; why can reminders be set for a
> > time that has already past? The reminder will never be triggered.
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> doesn't hurt anything to set the reminder for some time in the past. I'd
> like to know why you think it's an issue.

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