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Old December 22nd, 2004, 04:27 PM
pb
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Default calendar Reminders should pop up without opening the actual progra

I used the Office 2000 and the calendar reminders would pop up on my desk top
for every reminder that I set. I paid extra to upgrade to Office 2003 and
now you actually have to open the calendar program for the reminder to pop
up. If I'm opening the program-and looking at the calendar and the events I
have entered why would I even need a reminder? I'm LOOKING right at it...I
dont understand why they would take this pop up on the desk top feature away.
What purpose is the reminder serving if you have to REMEMBER to OPEN the
program (or have the program open with start up). I'll go back to using my
Office 2000 and return this one.
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Old December 22nd, 2004, 04:30 PM
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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That behavior is not by design but happens when you have something locking
Outlook in the background so an instance is still open.

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After furious head scratching, pb asked:

| I used the Office 2000 and the calendar reminders would pop up on my
| desk top for every reminder that I set. I paid extra to upgrade to
| Office 2003 and now you actually have to open the calendar program
| for the reminder to pop up. If I'm opening the program-and looking
| at the calendar and the events I have entered why would I even need a
| reminder? I'm LOOKING right at it...I dont understand why they would
| take this pop up on the desk top feature away. What purpose is the
| reminder serving if you have to REMEMBER to OPEN the program (or have
| the program open with start up). I'll go back to using my Office
| 2000 and return this one.


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Old December 22nd, 2004, 08:07 PM
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Can you expand on this reason, it doesn't make sence? Just reciently I have
not been able to receive calendar reminders even though it apears all of the
right check boxes are checked.

I have found that if I am on the company mail.companyname.com website I
get the reminders.



"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

That behavior is not by design but happens when you have something locking
Outlook in the background so an instance is still open.

--Â
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After furious head scratching, pb asked:

| I used the Office 2000 and the calendar reminders would pop up on my
| desk top for every reminder that I set. I paid extra to upgrade to
| Office 2003 and now you actually have to open the calendar program
| for the reminder to pop up. If I'm opening the program-and looking
| at the calendar and the events I have entered why would I even need a
| reminder? I'm LOOKING right at it...I dont understand why they would
| take this pop up on the desk top feature away. What purpose is the
| reminder serving if you have to REMEMBER to OPEN the program (or have
| the program open with start up). I'll go back to using my Office
| 2000 and return this one.



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Old December 23rd, 2004, 04:11 PM
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Please explain. EVERYONE at Dell AND tech support reps at Microsoft told me
that this is just the new way the Office Basic 2003 operates...I went through
6-8 tech support reps-they have all went through steps to confirm my
settings-and tell me that it's just the way the program works. Looking at
ALL the other messages having the same problem-clearly I'm not alone...

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

That behavior is not by design but happens when you have something locking
Outlook in the background so an instance is still open.

--Â
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After furious head scratching, pb asked:

| I used the Office 2000 and the calendar reminders would pop up on my
| desk top for every reminder that I set. I paid extra to upgrade to
| Office 2003 and now you actually have to open the calendar program
| for the reminder to pop up. If I'm opening the program-and looking
| at the calendar and the events I have entered why would I even need a
| reminder? I'm LOOKING right at it...I dont understand why they would
| take this pop up on the desk top feature away. What purpose is the
| reminder serving if you have to REMEMBER to OPEN the program (or have
| the program open with start up). I'll go back to using my Office
| 2000 and return this one.



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Old December 25th, 2004, 09:20 AM
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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It makes perfect sense. A program must be open to run. It has always been
this way. If you had reminders popping up without Outlook 2000 open,
Outlook 2000 was broken. You may have had a PDA docked, or Franklin-Covey
installed, or even WinFax Pro - all of these programs are known to open a
stub of Outlook. The list goes on but these are some of the major
offenders.

Outlook 2003 was programmed tighter to now allow this to happen, but it
still does for some people.

Tell me, why would you think that you would not need to have the program
open to take advantage of its features? It is like being able to type a
Word document without Word having been opened first.

What you are talking about is a bug that has since been fixed.


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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
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After furious head scratching, tbrown1775
asked this group:

| Can you expand on this reason, it doesn't make sence? Just reciently
| I have not been able to receive calendar reminders even though it
| apears all of the right check boxes are checked.
|
| I have found that if I am on the company mail.companyname.com
| website I get the reminders.
|
|
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| That behavior is not by design but happens when you have something
|| locking Outlook in the background so an instance is still open.
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
|| the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my
|| personal account will be deleted without reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, pb asked:
||
||| I used the Office 2000 and the calendar reminders would pop up on my
||| desk top for every reminder that I set. I paid extra to upgrade to
||| Office 2003 and now you actually have to open the calendar program
||| for the reminder to pop up. If I'm opening the program-and looking
||| at the calendar and the events I have entered why would I even need
||| a reminder? I'm LOOKING right at it...I dont understand why they
||| would take this pop up on the desk top feature away. What purpose
||| is the reminder serving if you have to REMEMBER to OPEN the program
||| (or have the program open with start up). I'll go back to using my
||| Office 2000 and return this one.


 




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