Incrementing birthdays and anniversaries

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Incrementing birthdays and anniversaries

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Outlook 2007 is good for reminding me of someon's birthday or the anniversary of an event however, it does not tell me if I am being minded of someone's 25th birthday or the 10th anniversary of an event.

Is there a way to have Outlook do this?
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Re: Incrementing birthdays and anniversaries

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Hi Don,

The article (with link below) quotes that:
There are a handful of ways you can include the person's age: use a macro or use a custom contact or appointment form to calculate their age.
It is an interesting question and one you'd suspect should be easily (or readily) available to the end user, however, there does not seem to be a simply way to do this unfortunately. (Unless I'm overlooking a really logical option!). See the details here:

https://www.slipstick.com/developer/code-samples/add-persons-age-birthday-event/
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Re: Incrementing birthdays and anniversaries

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Thanks and you're right - that would seem to be something many would want and Microsoft should incorporate this feature. I will look at the Slapstick page though.
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I simply put the year of the event (birth, marriage etc.) in the location field. It's not too hard to do the subtraction in your head.
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It's not too hard to do the subtraction in your head.
Oh Ya, you have not been in my head for a while.
Sometimes, I do not even know what day of the week it is.
I am so far behind, I think I am First :evilgrin:
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