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Change The Default Reminder For Appointments In Outlook 2007

Posted by on Jul 16, 2007 | 7 Comments

You can use the Outlook Calendar to keep track of your upcoming appointments. Outlook will remind you of an upcoming appointment by displaying a pop-up on your desktop. On busy days, this simple reminder can be critical.

By default, Outlook gives you a reminder 15 minutes before an appointment is schedule to occur. You can increase or decrease this value to suit your own needs using the steps that are outlined below.

  1. Within Outlook, click Options from the Tools menu.
  2. On the Preferences tab, in the Calendar group, use the drop down arrow beside Default Reminder to increase or decrease the value.
  3. Alternatively, if you do not want Outlook to give you reminders, remove the check beside the Default Reminder option.
  4. Click OK to save your changes.

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  • Stephen Lyle

    I love reminders in Outlook 2007, and until today, whenever I created a calendar entry with a reminder, the color of the event was different (olive) than events without reminders (grey). The only thing I can think of that I did today was subscribe to a Google calendar. Even when I delete the Google calendar, though, I still don’t get my auto-coloring of events with reminders. Any way I can get this back? Lots of searching through Help and the Internet has revealed nothing so far.

    Thank you!!

  • Marie A. Leavens

    Hi,
    I have set my reminders in Outlook 2007, but even though I clicked the Default reminder box, I don’t get any alarm. Nothing pops up and no sound plays. Any idea?
    Thanks, Marie

  • Sebastien

    @Marie: me too!
    In fact on my desktop on XP, it is fine.
    On my laptop with vista home, the alarm does not pop up, and every appointments, are set with no “notifications”. My guess is that it may be a bug of outlook 2007 within Vista.
    Will be fixed.

    S.

  • http://www.i4cp.com/blogs/newsletter/default.aspx Erik

    Can you turn off default reminders for a shared calendar I created, but keep my default reminders for my personal calendar?

  • Roger

    My default is 18hrs no matter what time I set the default to be. The only other option is to turn it off. Any idea where in the registry this is set?

  • Aj Wride

    Roger,

    You are double-clicking on the date to create an appointment. In Outlook 2007 a double click indicates that the appointment being created is an ‘all-day event’. All-day events have a default reminder set for 18-hours, this you cannot modify.

    Alternatively, right-clicking and selecting New Appointment or New Meeting Request will default to whatever you have set as your default reminder time.

    Hope this helps.

  • Dan

    Why in the h*** would Microsoft decide that all day events need an unchangeable default reminder of 18 hours??!! Why would they decide any default should be unchangeable? Unbelievable!