Birthday reminders are not showing up in Calendar

[mfaisald]

I have imported 1000 contacts from excel into Outlook. The Details tab
of Contacts does show Birthdates for all the contacts. However these
dates are not coming up in Calendar. I want them to come up as
Reminders in Calendar. If I do a manual entry of Birthdate in Contacts,
it does show up automatically in Calendar as Reminder. I have tried
/cleanreminders switch but that didn't work. Any suggestions ?
Outlook 2003.

Regards,
Faisal.

 

[Brian Tillman]

I have imported 1000 contacts from excel into Outlook. The Details tab
of Contacts does show Birthdates for all the contacts. However these
dates are not coming up in Calendar. I want them to come up as
Reminders in Calendar. If I do a manual entry of Birthdate in
Contacts, it does show up automatically in Calendar as Reminder. I
have tried /cleanreminders switch but that didn't work. Any
suggestions ?

You'll have to touch each contact. Importing apparently does not add a
birthdate to the calendar.

 

[mfaisald]

I think when I import contacts from Excel, the birthdate doesnt get
imported properly, although it shows up in Birthdate field but
something is wrong.
I created a test contacts folder and exported it as pst file and then
imported it in outlook and it worked fine. Birthday reminders did come
up in Calendars.
Unfortunately I have those 1000 contacts in excel format only. Probably
the problem is with excel or there got to be a way to correct this
problem.

 

[mfaisald]

Any suggestions to fix this ?

Thanks

 

[Guest]

Hello,
I have the same problem. This is not possible. The "solution" that most MVPs
give is to cut / paste birthday in the contact and re-save contact... A bit
tedious.

Only real solution is a macro. I found one on a German site, but I wanted to
let it check by a MVP/ Outlook Macro "expert" to make sure it wouldn't screw
up all my contacts. Check my other post re: this topic.

Peter