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Note 2: Although Holidays have a default reminder time of 15 minutes beforehand, by default the reminder for it is also disabled.I relapsed the other day. Note 1: Setting the Reminder Beforehand value to 0 will not disable the reminder it will wake you up at midnight. Still got plenty of time to do most things.

9360 = you’ll get the reminder at noon, 1 week before the Birthday.

2160 = you’ll get the reminder at noon, 2 days before the Birthday.

480 = you’ll get the reminder at 4 in the afternoon last minute present shopping?.

240 = you’ll get the reminder at 8 in the evening you still have time to send a digital greeting card.

Writing things like “3 hours” or “1 day” will not work here. The Reminder Beforehand needs to be specified in minutes. Then you can simply drag and drop the Birthday from the Yes group to the No group. If you want to disable the reminders for Birthdays, you can still use the steps as indicated above but instead of using the “Reminder Beforehand” field to group by, choose the “Reminder” field.

Of course you can also repeat this for other all day events such as Anniversaries and Holidays. You’re done! Writing it down in steps makes it look like more work than it actually is -) Select all the remaining Birthdays and drag and drop them into the “Remind Beforehand: 240” group.You’ll now get a new Remind Beforehand group with that value.Press ENTER on your keyboard to confirm the input.For instance, type 240 in order to get reminded at 8 in the evening on the day before the Birthday. Type the reminder beforehand in minutes.Click once more and you’ll see a cursor.Click a single time on a Birthday appointment in the field “Remind Beforehand”.Since the appointments are grouped by the reminder time, it is easy to change all items after you have changed one. You’ll now have a view that should more or less only display all the Birthdays (as it will also display other appointments with the subject set to Birthday).

Click OK and then OK again to close 2 of the open dialogs.In the field “Search for the word(s):” type “Birthday” (or the word for it in your own language).Set the dropdown list at the top to “Remind Beforehand” and verify that the option “Show field in view” is selected.Set the dropdown list in the bottom left named “Select available fields from:” from “Frequently-used fields” to “Date/Time fields”.Select “Remind Beforehand” in the list on the left and click the “Add ->” button.Select “Subject” in the list on the right.Set the dropdown list “Select available fields from:” from “Frequently-used fields” to “Date/Time fields”.Verify that the type of view is set to “Table” before clicking OK.

Select your Calendar containing the Birthday reminders.

We’re going to create a custom view which reveals the Reminder Beforehand time and group this view by this field as well so we can easily change it for a lot of items at once. It will not only allow you to set a different reminder, but also notify you how old that person will become. If you’d like to get additional Birthday features, then you could also directly check this CustomBirthdays add-in from OutlookStuff. As I sync Outlook with my smartphone, it wakes me up at night.Ĭan I make Outlook remind me of the Birthday at a more appropriate time?Īlthough you cannot change the default, it is luckily quite easy to modify all the Birthday reminders at once to a time that is more convenient to you by using a custom view. It's great that Outlook automatically generates Birthday reminders for the contacts I create with Birthday information but, sadly, it puts a default reminder of 15 minutes before the Birthday.