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If the appointment date and time is in the past, the
Reminder check box is not selected by default. If the appointment date and time is in the future, the
Reminder check box is selected by default. This behavior is a design feature of Microsoft Outlook; there is not a user interface to change this behavior.
Outlook assumes that you do not need a reminder for past appointments and that you do need a reminder for future appointments.
When you open your calendar in Outlook, the cursor must be focused somewhere. The first time that is marked as working hours on the calendar is the default focus point for the Outlook calendar. You can define working hours in Outlook by clicking
Options on the
Tools menu, clicking
Calendar Options, and then defining the workday
Start and
Stop times in the
Calendar Work Week section.
If you open your calendar and click
Actions, and then click
New Appointment, to create a new appointment without first selecting the desired time on the calendar, a new appointment form appears that has the appointment time occurring in the past. Therefore, the
Reminder check box is not selected by default.
If you open your calendar, click an available time space in the calendar, click
Actions, and then click
New Appointment, the
Reminder check box is selected by default.
If you create a custom form that has the
Reminder check box either selected or cleared, publish the custom form in your Forms folder, and assign the custom form as your new default appointment form, the
Reminder check box reverts to the default behavior.
If you create a custom form that has the
Reminder check box selected or cleared, and you publish the form in your Calendar folder, you can override the default
Reminder check box behavior. This form becomes available on the Calendar menu and is not the default form. The drawback of this method is that the appointment date and time defaults to the time that was in the form when you published it.
For additional information about custom forms and solutions in Outlook 2002, click the article numbers below
to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
294868 OL2002: Custom Forms and Programming Limitations
287530 OL2002: Questions About Custom Forms and Outlook Solutions
For more information about how to create custom forms, type
custom forms in the Office Assistant, click
Search, and then click to view
Create a form.