Email reminders default to date "1 January 4501"

[diana]

for some users pcs, in Outlook, the email reminders default to date "1 January 4501"

1) Right-click on the follow up flag on an email. Select "Set Quick Click" to "Complete".
2) Click "Add a reminder". The default date is "1 January 4501".

Ive tested on my pc I get the correct date displaying ie todays date.

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Is this a microsoft outlook setting? and how,where do i set?

Many thanks

diana

[DaveA]

Mine is OK, I am using 2007 on a Windows 7 64 bit machine.

What Outlook version and OS are these machines that have issues?

[Goshute]

1 January 4501 is the Outlook equivalent of a Null date. This appears to be a bug ins some versions of Outlook. Instead of setting the Quick Click to Completed, set it to Today or Next Day. Perhaps another Lounger knows a better fix for this, I'll look around some more, in the meantime make sure you are up-to-date in Service Packs.

[diana]

version Outlook 2007 SP2

[HansV]

It appears to be caused by setting the Quick Click to Complete; as Goshute suggested, set the Quick Click to Today or Next Day as a workaround.

Outlook MVP Diane Poremsky reports that the problem has been fixed in Outlook 2010.

[diana]

thank you all

diana