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Jan - 29 Sep 2007 00:21 GMT

Is it possible to enter an "event" in the Outlook 2007 calendar and somehow
have "reminders" automatically entered say 15 and 20 days prior? I work for
a small law firm and basically, I would like to be able to enter a trial
date and, for example, have a reminder x number of days before to prepare
jury instructions and x number of days before to send the client a reminder
letter.

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Vince Averello [MVP-Outlook] - 29 Sep 2007 11:45 GMT

Not really. You could set a reminder to be X days prior but not multiple
levels of reminders unless you manually create multiple items (one for the
event and one for each of the reminders. I doubt that would work well since
the items wouldn't be linked together and move together if the 'main' event
moved.

> Is it possible to enter an "event" in the Outlook 2007 calendar and
> somehow have "reminders" automatically entered say 15 and 20 days prior? I
> work for a small law firm and basically, I would like to be able to enter
> a trial date and, for example, have a reminder x number of days before to
> prepare jury instructions and x number of days before to send the client a
> reminder letter.

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Jan Groshan - 29 Sep 2007 17:57 GMT

Darn !

Hmmmm .... I guess I could put something in the "notes" section at the
bottom of the "main" event that would tell me what dates I manually entered
the reminders and/or associated dates, but boy, it sure would be nice to be
able to do it all in one entry.

Thanks for replying.

> Not really. You could set a reminder to be X days prior but not multiple
> levels of reminders unless you manually create multiple items (one for the
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>> before to prepare jury instructions and x number of days before to send
>> the client a reminder letter.

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Gordon - 29 Sep 2007 18:55 GMT

> Darn !
>
> Hmmmm .... I guess I could put something in the "notes" section at the
> bottom of the "main" event that would tell me what dates I manually
> entered the reminders and/or associated dates, but boy, it sure would be
> nice to be able to do it all in one entry.

Drag the event onto a Task and use that for a reminder to send the client
letter...

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Jan Groshan - 30 Sep 2007 05:42 GMT

Thanks! Hadn't thought of that option.

>> Darn !
>>
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> Drag the event onto a Task and use that for a reminder to send the client
> letter...

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