Eliminate stale reminders

Evan-Dr.E-4DSC Production · External Since: Sep 15, 2009 Posts: 1

I utilize the outlook calendar for all work meetings and personal
appointments. Often I may be offline or away from my computer during
meetings. When I return, hours or days later I get numerous "stale"
reminders for meetings that were scheduled/happened in the past. These are
useless and I have to go through the nuisance of "dismissing" each of these.
I would like to be able to "turn off" receipt of any reminders that are for
past events. Future is valid, but past is worthless.

Diane Poremsky [MVP] · External Since: Jul 28, 2005 Posts: 6715

Version of Outlook? If its one that has a unified dialog, select all and
dismiss. With older versions that use individual windows you'd need to turn
off reminders in tools, options, then turn them back on. That's really only
useful for vacation use. See
http://www.outlook-tips.net/archives/2004/20041130.htm

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"Evan-Dr.E-4DSC Productions" <Evan-Dr.E-4DSC
Productions.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I utilize the outlook calendar for all work meetings and personal
> appointments. Often I may be offline or away from my computer during
> meetings. When I return, hours or days later I get numerous "stale"
> reminders for meetings that were scheduled/happened in the past. These
> are
> useless and I have to go through the nuisance of "dismissing" each of
> these.
> I would like to be able to "turn off" receipt of any reminders that are
> for
> past events. Future is valid, but past is worthless.

Evan-Dr.E-4DSC Production · External Since: Sep 15, 2009 Posts: 1

Hi, it's Outlook 2007 SP2. To be clear, I'm looking for a feature or setting
to have the system not ever send me reminders for anything that is in the
past. I don't want to have to manually Dismiss anything, whether it's one
reminder or All. The system should be smart enough to know what's old.

Thanks for the reply!

"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:

> Version of Outlook? If its one that has a unified dialog, select all and
> dismiss. With older versions that use individual windows you'd need to turn
> off reminders in tools, options, then turn them back on. That's really only
> useful for vacation use. See
> http://www.outlook-tips.net/archives/2004/20041130.htm
>
> --
> Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
> Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
> Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com
>
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> mailto:dailytips-subscribe-request@lists.outlooktips.net
>
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> http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=22205
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> "Evan-Dr.E-4DSC Productions" <Evan-Dr.E-4DSC
> Productions DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:B070321D-9397-44D9-BAB9-69E139AF6CD0@microsoft.com...
> > I utilize the outlook calendar for all work meetings and personal
> > appointments. Often I may be offline or away from my computer during
> > meetings. When I return, hours or days later I get numerous "stale"
> > reminders for meetings that were scheduled/happened in the past. These
> > are
> > useless and I have to go through the nuisance of "dismissing" each of
> > these.
> > I would like to be able to "turn off" receipt of any reminders that are
> > for
> > past events. Future is valid, but past is worthless.
>
>

Diane Poremsky [MVP] · External Since: Jul 28, 2005 Posts: 6715

Some people want to be reminded until they dismiss the reminder and Outlook
doesn't offer a way to tell outlook to only remind you if the appointment
isn't past - it reminds you until you dismiss an appointment.

You have two choices: either disable all reminders or dismiss them as they
show up. With outlook 2007, itâ€™s a simple process to disable a group of
reminders - select the first one, Shift+PgDown and Dismiss.

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"Evan-Dr.E-4DSC Productions"
<EvanDrE4DSCProductions.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, it's Outlook 2007 SP2. To be clear, I'm looking for a feature or
> setting
> to have the system not ever send me reminders for anything that is in the
> past. I don't want to have to manually Dismiss anything, whether it's one
> reminder or All. The system should be smart enough to know what's old.
>
> Thanks for the reply!
>
> "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Version of Outlook? If its one that has a unified dialog, select all and
>> dismiss. With older versions that use individual windows you'd need to
>> turn
>> off reminders in tools, options, then turn them back on. That's really
>> only
>> useful for vacation use. See
>> http://www.outlook-tips.net/archives/2004/20041130.htm
>>
>> --
>> Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
>> Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
>> Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com
>>
>> Outlook Tips by email:
>> mailto:dailytips-subscribe-request@lists.outlooktips.net
>>
>> EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
>> mailto:EMO-NEWSLETTER-SUBSCRIBE-REQUEST@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM
>>
>> Do you keep Outlook open 24/7? Vote in our poll:
>> http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=22205
>>
>> "Evan-Dr.E-4DSC Productions" <Evan-Dr.E-4DSC
>> Productions.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:B070321D-9397-44D9-BAB9-69E139AF6CD0@microsoft.com...
>> > I utilize the outlook calendar for all work meetings and personal
>> > appointments. Often I may be offline or away from my computer during
>> > meetings. When I return, hours or days later I get numerous "stale"
>> > reminders for meetings that were scheduled/happened in the past. These
>> > are
>> > useless and I have to go through the nuisance of "dismissing" each of
>> > these.
>> > I would like to be able to "turn off" receipt of any reminders that are
>> > for
>> > past events. Future is valid, but past is worthless.
>>
>>

Chad · External Since: Oct 13, 2009 Posts: 1

I'm have essentially the same problem but under different
circumstances. I use Outlook to keep track of what I've been doing for
timesheet purposes in addition to future appointments. If I just
finished working on a project for the last hour, I'll fill in an
appointment for it. Sometimes it will be late in the day and I'll fill
in several things I've been working on all day. I have now created .
The difference from the prior question is that I created appointments
that happened in the past, but the reminders come up anyway. It should
be trivially easy to check against the current time and have it ignore
events created after they were finished yet still maintain reminders
for future events.

Is there no option or setting for this at all? (Outlook 2007 SP2.)

Thanks.

On Sep 15, 6:54 pm, "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" <outlook....TakeThisOut@msn.com> wrote:
> Some people want to be reminded until they dismiss the reminder and Outlook
> doesn't offer a way to tell outlook to only remind you if the appointment
> isn't past - it reminds you until you dismiss an appointment.
>
> You have two choices: either disable all reminders or dismiss them as they
> show up. With outlook 2007, it’s a simple process to disable a group of
> reminders - select the first one, Shift+PgDown and Dismiss.
>
> --
> Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
> Outlook Tips:http://www.outlook-tips.net/
> Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center:http://www.slipstick.com
>
> Outlook Tips by email:
> mailto:dailytips-subscribe-requ...@lists.outlooktips.net
>
> EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
> mailto:EMO-NEWSLETTER-SUBSCRIBE-REQU...@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM
>
> Do you keep Outlook open 24/7? Vote in our poll:http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=22205
>
> "Evan-Dr.E-4DSC Productions"<EvanDrE4DSCProducti....TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft..com> wrote in message
>
> news:945BE620-42D8-4646-BED7-E39BE371D17E@microsoft.com...
>
> > Hi, it's Outlook 2007 SP2. To be clear, I'm looking for a feature or
> > setting
> > to have the system not ever send me reminders for anything that is in the
> > past. I don't want to have to manually Dismiss anything, whether it's one
> > reminder or All. The system should be smart enough to know what's old.
>
> > Thanks for the reply!
>
> > "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:
>
> >> Version of Outlook? If its one that has a unified dialog, select all and
> >> dismiss. With older versions that use individual windows you'd need to
> >> turn
> >> off reminders in tools, options, then turn them back on. That's really
> >> only
> >> useful for vacation use. See
> >>http://www.outlook-tips.net/archives/2004/20041130.htm
>
> >> --
> >> Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
> >> Outlook Tips:http://www.outlook-tips.net/
> >> Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center:http://www.slipstick.com
>
> >> Outlook Tips by email:
> >> mailto:dailytips-subscribe-requ...@lists.outlooktips.net
>
> >> EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
> >> mailto:EMO-NEWSLETTER-SUBSCRIBE-REQU...@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM
>
> >> Do you keep Outlook open 24/7? Vote in our poll:
> >>http://forums.slipstick.com/showthread.php?t=22205
>
> >> "Evan-Dr.E-4DSC Productions" <Evan-Dr.E-4DSC
> >> Producti....TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >>news:B070321D-9397-44D9-BAB9-69E139AF6CD0@microsoft.com...
> >> > I utilize the outlook calendar for all work meetings and personal
> >> > appointments. Often I may be offline or away from my computer during
> >> > meetings. When I return, hours or days later I get numerous "stale"
> >> > reminders for meetings that were scheduled/happened in the past. These
> >> > are
> >> > useless and I have to go through the nuisance of "dismissing" each of
> >> > these.
> >> > I would like to be able to "turn off" receipt of any reminders that are
> >> > for
> >> > past events. Future is valid, but past is worthless.