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I am unable to get pop up reminders on top of the window I am working with.
Using Windows 7 with Office Outlook 2007. Can someone please help? thanks
Using Windows 7 with Office Outlook 2007. Can someone please help? thanks
I am unable to get pop up reminders on top of the window I am working with.
Using Windows 7 with Office Outlook 2007. Can someone please help? thanks
Rich Coleman said:Good for you - that's why they are called "options". You are happy, we are
not since I miss meetings all the time now.
Milly Staples said:Microsoft was heavily pounded for having the Window pop up OVER the active
window where reminders were easily dismissed and important work was
interrupted. Just goes to show, you can't please everyone all of the time.
Personally, I prefer the taskbar option. And I use a less than full size
window when working on documents or Outlook or the Internet, but I have a
wide screen monitor (24") and at home dual monitors.
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
ALWAYS post your Outlook version.
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
After furious head scratching, R Gibson asked:
| I have the same problem. I like that it flashes in the task bar,
| however, when I'm focusing on a Word document or other piece of
| software, often I don't even see the brief flash in the task bar, and
| then end up being late for a meeting.
|
| I would like Microsoft to offer an option to turn on "pop-over"
| control of Outlook reminders. It should me MY choice, NOT Microsoft's
| whether or not the reminder pops OVER my focused window.
|
| As for "Try not to occlude so much of the desktop that the reminder
| window can't be seen." Are you serious? Why would I not maximize my
| Microsoft Word window when I'm typing a document? Or did I
| misunderstand you? It sounds like you're telling us to keep all of
| our windows "restored down" to some fraction of the window size WHILE
| IN USE, just so I can see a reminder pop up. NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. Let
| me CHOOSE to set the reminder to pop OVER my already maximized window
| and I'll be happy.
|
| -R
|
|
| "Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| ||
||| I am unable to get pop up reminders on top of the window I am
||| working with. Using Windows 7 with Office Outlook 2007. Can someone
||| please help? thanks
||
|| The reminder window generally doesn't pop up over the top of the
|| window with focus. If it were to do that, it would interrupt
|| whatever you were doing at the time. That's why the taskbar handle
|| flashes - to attract your attention to the fact there's a reminder.
|| Try not to occlude so much of the desktop that the reminder window
|| can't be seen. --
|| Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]
||
|| .
.
[email protected] said:How do i fix this? i don't understand? i need my calendar to pop up infront
of anything i am doing. i missed 3 meetings since Win 7 update.
Rich Coleman said:Good for you - that's why they are called "options". You are happy, we are
not since I miss meetings all the time now.
Milly Staples said:Microsoft was heavily pounded for having the Window pop up OVER the active
window where reminders were easily dismissed and important work was
interrupted. Just goes to show, you can't please everyone all of the time.
Personally, I prefer the taskbar option. And I use a less than full size
window when working on documents or Outlook or the Internet, but I have a
wide screen monitor (24") and at home dual monitors.
--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
ALWAYS post your Outlook version.
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
After furious head scratching, R Gibson asked:
| I have the same problem. I like that it flashes in the task bar,
| however, when I'm focusing on a Word document or other piece of
| software, often I don't even see the brief flash in the task bar, and
| then end up being late for a meeting.
|
| I would like Microsoft to offer an option to turn on "pop-over"
| control of Outlook reminders. It should me MY choice, NOT Microsoft's
| whether or not the reminder pops OVER my focused window.
|
| As for "Try not to occlude so much of the desktop that the reminder
| window can't be seen." Are you serious? Why would I not maximize my
| Microsoft Word window when I'm typing a document? Or did I
| misunderstand you? It sounds like you're telling us to keep all of
| our windows "restored down" to some fraction of the window size WHILE
| IN USE, just so I can see a reminder pop up. NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. Let
| me CHOOSE to set the reminder to pop OVER my already maximized window
| and I'll be happy.
|
| -R
|
|
| "Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| ||
||| I am unable to get pop up reminders on top of the window I am
||| working with. Using Windows 7 with Office Outlook 2007. Can someone
||| please help? thanks
||
|| The reminder window generally doesn't pop up over the top of the
|| window with focus. If it were to do that, it would interrupt
|| whatever you were doing at the time. That's why the taskbar handle
|| flashes - to attract your attention to the fact there's a reminder.
|| Try not to occlude so much of the desktop that the reminder window
|| can't be seen. --
|| Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]
||
|| .
.
Milly Staples said:Microsoft was heavily pounded for having the Window pop up OVER the active
window where reminders were easily dismissed and important work was
interrupted. Just goes to show, you can't please everyone all of the time.
Personally, I prefer the taskbar option. And I use a less than full size
window when working on documents or Outlook or the Internet, but I have a
wide screen monitor (24") and at home dual monitors.
--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
ALWAYS post your Outlook version.
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
After furious head scratching, R Gibson asked:
| I have the same problem. I like that it flashes in the task bar,
| however, when I'm focusing on a Word document or other piece of
| software, often I don't even see the brief flash in the task bar, and
| then end up being late for a meeting.
|
| I would like Microsoft to offer an option to turn on "pop-over"
| control of Outlook reminders. It should me MY choice, NOT Microsoft's
| whether or not the reminder pops OVER my focused window.
|
| As for "Try not to occlude so much of the desktop that the reminder
| window can't be seen." Are you serious? Why would I not maximize my
| Microsoft Word window when I'm typing a document? Or did I
| misunderstand you? It sounds like you're telling us to keep all of
| our windows "restored down" to some fraction of the window size WHILE
| IN USE, just so I can see a reminder pop up. NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. Let
| me CHOOSE to set the reminder to pop OVER my already maximized window
| and I'll be happy.
|
| -R
|
|
| "Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| ||
||| I am unable to get pop up reminders on top of the window I am
||| working with. Using Windows 7 with Office Outlook 2007. Can someone
||| please help? thanks
||
|| The reminder window generally doesn't pop up over the top of the
|| window with focus. If it were to do that, it would interrupt
|| whatever you were doing at the time. That's why the taskbar handle
|| flashes - to attract your attention to the fact there's a reminder.
|| Try not to occlude so much of the desktop that the reminder window
|| can't be seen. --
|| Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]
||
|| .
.
Actually, it shows one that their users want choice. Of course you can't
please everyone - why do you think a company can. You can however make MANY
MORE happy by not going one way or the other. If it was already working and
MS had to write code to stop it, why not throw a switch in there and let the
user decide?
Ken Slovak - said:Hi Milly,
I generally agree with that, but in this case setting or not setting the
reminders window to always be topmost is perhaps 4 lines of code, including
a test to see whether to do it.
Of course a setting in a dialog to set that would be a few more lines of
code.
But it wouldn't be anything significant, just a call to SetWindowPos() with
an argument of HWND_TOPMOST if always on top of everything is desired.
Milly Staples said:I am constantly amazed by the simple assumption that users make that
programming in an on/off switch is a matter of a simple line of code. If
it
were that simple, Microsoft would have done it years ago.
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
ALWAYS post your Outlook version.
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
.
Listen up MVPs, you could think outside of the box and give some HELPFUL
advice instead of spewing out dumb reasns why MS thought it was a good idea.
Do people from Microsoft actually moderate these threads?
Nope.
Or are the cries for change falling on deaf ears here?
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