the link between contacts and calendar

[Lorry]

Outlook 2003, windows xp pro all updates

Two questions please.

1. If i add a new contact with a birthday or anniversary then, when i save
that contact the birthday etc are saved in the calendar......so far so good.

If i delete the contact however, the birthday does not get deleted from the
calendar.

I assume therefore that there is not a LINK between the calndar and the
contact but rather that outlook writes a recurring appt into the calendar
for that birthday. That being the case, is there a way to stop outlook
doing it unless i want it to?

2. I have a large number of contacts from a different computer that i want
to add to my current outlook contacts .......what is the best way to do that
(i dont really want their birthdays etc to get into my calnedar but i do
want all the contacts in teh same folder so i can search them at the saem
time

Thank you for what i hope isnt a rehash of a thousand prior questions

Lorry

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

1) Outlook provides no way to turn this feature off.

2) Importing generally won't create birthday/anniversary appointments at the time of the import.

 

[Lorry]

Thanks Sue,

When you say importing do you mean importing or copying....seems that most
posts on this site say don’t import only copy.

Regards from Autralia

Lorry

1) Outlook provides no way to turn this feature off.

2) Importing generally won't create birthday/anniversary appointments at the
time of the import.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

I agree: If you're copying all your data from one machine to another, it's much better to simply copy the entire .pst file. But if you're trying to consolidate data from multiple .pst files into one, copying and importing are the same thing.

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