Duplicate Birthday reminders

[Troy]

Easy steps to reproduce:

1. Open a contact which has a birthday.
2. Click on the "Details" tab.
3. Click on the arrow next to the birthday to drop down the calendar.
4. Select the same date as is selected on the calendar.
5. Save the contact.

Now... you'll have another (duplicate) birthday reminder on the
calendar. How can this be avoided in the future? How can the existing
duplicates be removed?

--Troy

 

[Russ Valentine [MVP-Outlook]]

Not sure I see the problem here. You tell Outlook to add a birthday to your
calendar. It does. Why would you ask it to add it again? And if for some
reason you do, why can you not simply delete the duplicate you created?

 

[Troy Wolbrink]

Not sure I see the problem here. You tell Outlook to add a birthday to

your calendar. It does. Why would you ask it to add it again? And if for
some reason you do, why can you not simply delete the duplicate you
created?

The adding of a birthday reminder to the calendar is going on behind the
scenes whenever I set the birthday on a contact. I never told Outlook to do
it. Since Outlook doesn't retract the original, it leaves a duplicate. If
you change someone's birthday, Outlook creates a new reminder on the new
date, but leaves the old reminder on the old date. You really can't trust
the reminders you see until you confirm the birth date listed on the
contact.

I'd like to turn off the automatic birthday reminders feature, and I'd like
to remove the already generated reminders from my contact.

--Troy

 

[Paul B.]

I posted a similar message recently (Is there a way to prevent Outlook from
automatically putting my contacts' birthdays and anniversaries into my
calendar?). Judging from the answers I received I would say that either
there's not a way or nobody knows how. I just got a bunch of work-around
suggestions.
Paul