I am running Outlook 2007 on Windows 7 OS on a new PC. My PST file has
legacy data in it from Outlook 2003, but with historical calendar data
completely erased. Outlook 2007 has only newly entered appointments, both
one-time and recurring, starting this week. All the calendar data currently
in Outlook was entered in Outlook then sync'd to my Treo755p via Bluetooth
with perfect results, including reminders, which alert properly on the
handheld, but not at all in Outlook. I know that reminders in Outlook 2007
have been changed to be less noticable (you've got to be kidding!), but when
I make the reminder box visible at a time when an alert should be there
(trying politely not to be too insistent!), the box is blank. No alert
indicated, no sound or display, even thouugh both functions are selected in
the reminder settings. Any suggestions as to why reminders are not
operative? They must be residing in Outlook somewhere, or my PDA wouldn't
know about them after a sync. I'd like these kinder, gentler REMINDERS to be
a little more forthcoming on the PC. Suggestions?



Suggestions?
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fsarch

For anyone who might be interested, I found the answer to this question in
the forum www.office-outlook.com as follows:


> I was getting the same error message and this post guided me in the right
> direction. Somehow, my main Outlook file was "open" twice. To fix, in
> Outlook 2007, go to Tools menu, select "account settings", select the "data
> files" tab, and see if your Outlook PST file is listed more than once. If
> so, select "remove" for the one that does not show as your default.
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fsarch


"fsarch" wrote:

> I am running Outlook 2007 on Windows 7 OS on a new PC. My PST file has
> legacy data in it from Outlook 2003, but with historical calendar data
> completely erased. Outlook 2007 has only newly entered appointments, both
> one-time and recurring, starting this week. All the calendar data currently
> in Outlook was entered in Outlook then sync'd to my Treo755p via Bluetooth
> with perfect results, including reminders, which alert properly on the
> handheld, but not at all in Outlook. I know that reminders in Outlook 2007
> have been changed to be less noticable (you've got to be kidding!), but when
> I make the reminder box visible at a time when an alert should be there
> (trying politely not to be too insistent!), the box is blank. No alert
> indicated, no sound or display, even thouugh both functions are selected in
> the reminder settings. Any suggestions as to why reminders are not
> operative? They must be residing in Outlook somewhere, or my PDA wouldn't
> know about them after a sync. I'd like these kinder, gentler REMINDERS to be
> a little more forthcoming on the PC. Suggestions?
>
>
>
> Suggestions?
> --
> fsarch