Preventing Outlook from automatically creating birthday and anniversary events in calendar when ente

[Paul B.]

Is there any way to prevent Outlook from automatically creating birthday and
anniversary events in my calendar when entering them in the contact's
"details" tab? This is extremely annoying because I have my contacts filed
as "Jones, John & Mary" ; and I already had a recurring event in my calendar
named "John's Birthday". Now I have 2 events: "Jones, John & Mary's
Birthday" and "John's Birthday". I don't want to remove the birthday and
anniversary dates from the contact details because I use an MS Access
database based on my Outlook contacts and want the dates saved. I'd like to
keep Outlook from trying to be "smarter" than me.

 

[Judy Gleeson]

Make individual Contacts and you won't have the problem you describe.
Surely John and Mary aren't joined at the hip and deserve their own entity!

Judy Gleeson

 

[Paul B.]

Yeah, that's a workaround. But when I print a report of addresses or phone
numbers from Outlook, I like to have both spouses' names listed together.
Bottom line is that Microsoft should not FORCE me to put contact information
in my calendar.

 

[Paul B.]

I figured out a work-around for this issue. I deleted all of my
self-generated events and found that I could edit the titles of the
Outlook-generated events to my liking (e.g., I changed "Jones, John & Mary's
Birthday" to "John's Birthday"). Outlook seems to have accepted the changes
and has not tried to re-generate another set of events. Hopefully, this
will help others who have the same issue.
Paul B.

 

[Judy Gleeson]

Paul

you could also make your own fields in Contacts - Field Chooser, New Field.
That could have spouse's b'day etc.

Judy

 

[Guest]

I have a related issue. It's not that I'm getting multiple entries, I'm just
getting the one automatic calendar entry and *I just don't want it!* I
regularly edit a customer contact list that was set up to use the Anniversary
date as the date the customer last contacted us. Every time I edit it, I have
to go through my calendar and delete all of the events that Office insists I
must want. Isn't there some way to just turn this feature off and make it go
away forever?