Show anniv years in calendar

[Guest]

On my Pocket PC, when I put in a birthday or anniversary, it displays the
number of years since inception. For instance, I have a friend who's birthday
in on 3/22. On my Pocket PC, after the text "Debi H's BD," in parenthesis it
has (50), noting that she'll be 50 years old. In Outlook, though the info is
synced with the proper birth year, there's no notation of her age. Is there a
way to get that to show on the Outlook calendar when you print it?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

no. you can add custom fields that will calculate the birthday but it's not
a feature built in.
http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/age_form.htm

 

[Brian Tillman]

On my Pocket PC, when I put in a birthday or anniversary, it displays
the number of years since inception. For instance, I have a friend
who's birthday in on 3/22. On my Pocket PC, after the text "Debi H's
BD," in parenthesis it has (50), noting that she'll be 50 years old.
In Outlook, though the info is synced with the proper birth year,
there's no notation of her age. Is there a way to get that to show on
the Outlook calendar when you print it?

You might be able to do this with code.
http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/calcage.htm

 

[Guest]

It seems strange that my Pocket PC has a feature that Outlook doesn't,
especially since MS developed the OS and software. I'm not impressed that
there's not a fix!

 

[Guest]

Since the birthdays and anniversaries are seldom associated with a contact,
this won't help, but I appreciate the advise. Like I told Diane, I'm not
impressed that Outlook doesn't work the same on the PC as it does on my
mobile device. Bummer!

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Does Pocket PC have Access as a part of its Pocket Office?

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After furious head scratching, ninner asked:

| It seems strange that my Pocket PC has a feature that Outlook doesn't,
| especially since MS developed the OS and software. I'm not impressed
| that there's not a fix!
|
| "Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:
|
|| no. you can add custom fields that will calculate the birthday but
|| it's not a feature built in.
|| http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/age_form.htm
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|| ||| On my Pocket PC, when I put in a birthday or anniversary, it
||| displays the number of years since inception. For instance, I have
||| a friend who's birthday
||| in on 3/22. On my Pocket PC, after the text "Debi H's BD," in
||| parenthesis it
||| has (50), noting that she'll be 50 years old. In Outlook, though
||| the info is
||| synced with the proper birth year, there's no notation of her age.
||| Is there a
||| way to get that to show on the Outlook calendar when you print it?

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

It is not Outlook, it is POCKET Outlook.

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After furious head scratching, ninner asked:

| Since the birthdays and anniversaries are seldom associated with a
| contact, this won't help, but I appreciate the advise. Like I told
| Diane, I'm not impressed that Outlook doesn't work the same on the PC
| as it does on my mobile device. Bummer!
|
| "Brian Tillman" wrote:
|
||
||| On my Pocket PC, when I put in a birthday or anniversary, it
||| displays the number of years since inception. For instance, I have
||| a friend who's birthday in on 3/22. On my Pocket PC, after the text
||| "Debi H's BD," in parenthesis it has (50), noting that she'll be 50
||| years old. In Outlook, though the info is synced with the proper
||| birth year, there's no notation of her age. Is there a way to get
||| that to show on the Outlook calendar when you print it?
||
|| You might be able to do this with code.
|| http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/calcage.htm
|| --
|| Brian Tillman

 

[Brian Tillman]

Does Pocket PC have Access as a part of its Pocket Office?

Nope. My iPAQ 2215 displays the birthay or anniversary number in
parentheses, but does not have any version of Access on it, at least as far
as I can tell from its menus or documentation.

 

[Guest]

What I usually do is put the person's birth year in square brackets in the
subject line. I have to do the math in my head but it's not too hard ;-)
The reason I use square brackets instead of parenthesis is that Outlook will
often put anything in parentheses in the subject line into the Location field.

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