birthdays are not showing up as events

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Meg

i have birthdays in the details section of my outlook contacts, yet they are
no longer showing up as events in the calendar.

any suggestions

windows xp
outlook 2003
 
Did it work at one time? Also, how did the contacts get into the Contacts
folder?
 
it did work at one time.
I have added the contacts manually, some of them have been imported from a
backup. Some are synced from a palm pilot hotsync (mostly not) and some
have been synced using share-o



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Meg Darnell, LMT, CD
Director of Alumni Services
Swedish Institute College of Health Sciences
212-924-5900 x142


Did it work at one time? Also, how did the contacts get into the Contacts
folder?
 
If you manually modify something in the items where the birthday isn't on
the calendar, does it fix it?
 
don't know what that means, exactly.

--
Meg Darnell, LMT, CD
Director of Alumni Services
Swedish Institute College of Health Sciences
212-924-5900 x142
 
in the contact?

--
Meg Darnell, LMT, CD
Director of Alumni Services
Swedish Institute College of Health Sciences
212-924-5900 x142
 
i made changes in the contact file (changed the address and a email address)
and it made no difference in the birthdays and anniversary listing.
 
any other suggestions out there?

--
Meg Darnell, LMT, CD
Director of Alumni Services
Swedish Institute College of Health Sciences
212-924-5900 x142
 
Are you using the default contacts folder and the default calendar to view
the birthdays?

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Meg asked:

| any other suggestions out there?
|
|
| || i made changes in the contact file (changed the address and a email
|| address) and it made no difference in the birthdays and anniversary
|| listing.
||
|| ||| Yes
|||
||| |||| in the contact?
 
well, I use the default calendar, but I have many contact folders.


--
Meg Darnell, LMT, CD
Director of Alumni Services
Swedish Institute College of Health Sciences
212-924-5900 x142


"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
 
Only birthdays from contacts in the default folder display in the calendar.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Meg asked:

| well, I use the default calendar, but I have many contact folders.
|
|
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| || Are you using the default contacts folder and the default calendar
|| to view the birthdays?
||
|| --
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Meg asked:
||
||| any other suggestions out there?
|||
|||
||| |||| i made changes in the contact file (changed the address and a email
|||| address) and it made no difference in the birthdays and anniversary
|||| listing.
||||
|||| message ||||| Yes
|||||
||||| |||||| in the contact?
 
but the other contacts are subfolders of the main contact folder.


--
Meg Darnell, LMT, CD
Director of Alumni Services
Swedish Institute College of Health Sciences
212-924-5900 x142


"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
 
Meg said:
but the other contacts are subfolders of the main contact folder.
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Subfolders have no more special standing that folders elsewhere in the
hierarchy. You could have calendars X, Y, and Z as subflders of the main
calendar or as top-level folders along side of the main calendar and it
wouldn't make any difference. Making a subfolder of a main folder does not
impart any special handling for that folder.
 
so this means, that however the main contact folder is the only contact
folder that will generate birthdays and anniversaries?
 
Meg said:
so this means, that however the main contact folder is the only
contact folder that will generate birthdays and anniversaries?
Click to expand...

Yes. Only the main folder.
 
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