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Multiple Birthdays for one contact.

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Cec - 28 Aug 2007 19:56 GMT
In looking at the message board, this has been a continual problem for many.
Have we not figured out a way to have multiple birthdays for one contact and
have them show up on the calendar. This seems like a basic function that
would not be hard to implement. This would be a very useful tool to many of
your outlook clients. This would be a great tool for your Microsoft outlook
clients to better serve their clients and help them remember special dates.
Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 28 Aug 2007 21:50 GMT
Odd request. Most people I know do not have more than one birthday.
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Russ Valentine
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> In looking at the message board, this has been a continual problem for
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jodal00 - 06 Dec 2007 21:06 GMT
Odd yes, but it would be handy to have one contact (client) but be able to
have the birthdates of his spouse & Kids. No need to have a contact for each,
especially when exporting to a PDA.

> Odd request. Most people I know do not have more than one birthday.
> > In looking at the message board, this has been a continual problem for
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> > http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=a4da8431-8767-4
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Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook] - 06 Dec 2007 21:35 GMT
I think some people would use something like the Notes field for
non-standard information like that. Most would just create separate
Contacts. It's more reliable.
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Russ Valentine
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> Odd yes, but it would be handy to have one contact (client) but be able to
> have the birthdates of his spouse & Kids. No need to have a contact for
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Cheryl - 14 Dec 2007 22:53 GMT
I wish they would add it -- I'm you can tell that Russ is a man and probably
isn't the one who does holiday cards or keeps up with birthdays.

Here is why you need it: Why do I want to create separate contacts for
3-year olds? But I want to know when birthdays come up. I don't use Outlook
for business nearly as much as I use it to manage my personal contacts.

In the Palm platform you could use a program called "Happy Days" to add all
the birthdays to your calendar. It was an extra step, but very handy. I
created a "Birthdays" Field and then could list all the special events like
this:

* Mary 6/6/1968
* Bruce 5/9/68
* Shannon 4/28/99
*Wedding Mary&Bruce

Then I'd run "Happy Days" and it would know to look up all the asterisks in
that field and load them into the calendar. But not only would it put Mary's
name on her birthdate, I would get an alarm 3 days in advance (that is what I
set it for -- time enough for a card) AND it would list her age (or the
anniversary number). It was GREAT!!!

And why can't Outlook come better-prepared to enter families???? As it is
not I have to pick a main person then list the spouse on a separate page?
Then when I print it out it's a pain to get the envelope to read "Mary, Bruce
and Shannon Smith". It's just so frustrating to enter them now. In the
"contact" field I have to write "Mary Bruce & Shannon Smith" -- no commas or
anything like that -- in order for it to come out ok. I'm tricking it into
knowing all the family names.

This is NOT non-standard info to me, this is very important to me as a
person in wedding/events business.
Brian Tillman - 17 Dec 2007 15:32 GMT
> Here is why you need it: Why do I want to create separate contacts for
> 3-year olds? But I want to know when birthdays come up. I don't use
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> very handy. I created a "Birthdays" Field and then could list all the
> special events like this:

So, why not just add all-day events for the children (and spouses, for that
matter), and link to those events from the notes pane of the main contact?
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