Reminders at 6am!!!

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Bartman - 26 Jul 2006 18:51 GMT

Whenever I have an all day event planned, my reminder sounds off at 6am! I'm
SLEEPING!!! I don't want to be woken up at 6am because it's my cousin's
birthday that I haven't seen in 2 years! How do I stop this?

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Charles Kenyon - 26 Jul 2006 19:38 GMT

Change the time your day begins on the calendar.
Tools > Options > Calendar Options (button)
This will change reminders that are set in the future. I'm not sure about
those for events you've already entered.

I have mine set to 8:00 a.m. and that is when my reminders go off.

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You leave outlook running on a computer in your bedroom when you are
sleeping?

> Whenever I have an all day event planned, my reminder sounds off at 6am!
> I'm
> SLEEPING!!! I don't want to be woken up at 6am because it's my cousin's
> birthday that I haven't seen in 2 years! How do I stop this?

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Brian Tillman - 26 Jul 2006 21:21 GMT

> Whenever I have an all day event planned, my reminder sounds off at
> 6am! I'm SLEEPING!!! I don't want to be woken up at 6am because
> it's my cousin's birthday that I haven't seen in 2 years! How do I
> stop this?

Turn off the reminder when you create an all-day event or change the
reminder time to a more convenient one when you create the event. How hard
is that?

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Charles Kenyon - 28 Jul 2006 03:04 GMT

For birthdays and anniversaries, if you put these into a contact's
information, the event is created automatically without the user even seeing
it. That is why I suggested changing the beginning time for your day in the
calendar.

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>> Whenever I have an all day event planned, my reminder sounds off at
>> 6am! I'm SLEEPING!!! I don't want to be woken up at 6am because
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> reminder time to a more convenient one when you create the event. How
> hard is that?

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Brian Tillman - 28 Jul 2006 13:50 GMT

> For birthdays and anniversaries, if you put these into a contact's
> information, the event is created automatically without the user even
> seeing it. That is why I suggested changing the beginning time for
> your day in the calendar.

But, since you KNOW you enetered it and you KNOW that Outlook adds it to the
calendar, you can either disable the automatic reminder generally and add
one only to those items that need one when you create those items, or you
can simply remove it from the events you name after adding the entries to
the contacts. It takes, what, 15 seconds to do that?

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