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MS Office Forum / Outlook / Contacts / March 2005Preventing Outlook from automatically creating birthday and anniversary events in calendar when entering them in contacts
Is there any way to prevent Outlook from automatically creating birthday and anniversary events in my calendar when entering them in the contact's "details" tab? This is extremely annoying because I have my contacts filed as "Jones, John & Mary" ; and I already had a recurring event in my calendar named "John's Birthday". Now I have 2 events: "Jones, John & Mary's Birthday" and "John's Birthday". I don't want to remove the birthday and anniversary dates from the contact details because I use an MS Access database based on my Outlook contacts and want the dates saved. I'd like to keep Outlook from trying to be "smarter" than me. Make individual Contacts and you won't have the problem you describe. Surely John and Mary aren't joined at the hip and deserve their own entity! Judy Gleeson > Is there any way to prevent Outlook from automatically creating birthday and > anniversary events in my calendar when entering them in the contact's [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > database based on my Outlook contacts and want the dates saved. I'd like to > keep Outlook from trying to be "smarter" than me. Yeah, that's a workaround. But when I print a report of addresses or phone numbers from Outlook, I like to have both spouses' names listed together. Bottom line is that Microsoft should not FORCE me to put contact information in my calendar. > Make individual Contacts and you won't have the problem you describe. > Surely John and Mary aren't joined at the hip and deserve their own [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > to >> keep Outlook from trying to be "smarter" than me. I figured out a work-around for this issue. I deleted all of my self-generated events and found that I could edit the titles of the Outlook-generated events to my liking (e.g., I changed "Jones, John & Mary's Birthday" to "John's Birthday"). Outlook seems to have accepted the changes and has not tried to re-generate another set of events. Hopefully, this will help others who have the same issue. Paul B. > Is there any way to prevent Outlook from automatically creating birthday > and anniversary events in my calendar when entering them in the contact's [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > MS Access database based on my Outlook contacts and want the dates saved. > I'd like to keep Outlook from trying to be "smarter" than me. Paul you could also make your own fields in Contacts - Field Chooser, New Field. That could have spouse's b'day etc. Judy > Is there any way to prevent Outlook from automatically creating birthday and > anniversary events in my calendar when entering them in the contact's [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > database based on my Outlook contacts and want the dates saved. I'd like to > keep Outlook from trying to be "smarter" than me. I have a related issue. It's not that I'm getting multiple entries, I'm just getting the one automatic calendar entry and *I just don't want it!* I regularly edit a customer contact list that was set up to use the Anniversary date as the date the customer last contacted us. Every time I edit it, I have to go through my calendar and delete all of the events that Office insists I must want. Isn't there some way to just turn this feature off and make it go away forever? > Is there any way to prevent Outlook from automatically creating birthday and > anniversary events in my calendar when entering them in the contact's [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > database based on my Outlook contacts and want the dates saved. I'd like to > keep Outlook from trying to be "smarter" than me. |
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