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Hi. I'm not sure whether this question will turn into a discussion of a
technical aspect of setting event reminders or a discussion of how Outlook
2003's reminders actually work... It seems that the question I'm about to
ask deals both with reminders set on events/calendar appointments AND tasks.
Let's say that I set a task in my tasklist to pay my car payment on "Friday,
October 5th," with a reminder set to alert me three days in advance. When I
set the reminder, I ask it to give me the reminder at 9:00am. If I turn on
my computer and open Microsoft Outlook '03 at 9:05am on October 2nd (the day
I should get the reminder), the reminder window comes up and tells me that my
"Car Payment" is "5 minutes overdue."
When I set the reminder, it seems to take on the reminder time as the actual
time the task is due, as opposed to the time I simply want to be reminded of
the upcoming task in 3 days. I would have expected the reminder box to say
that my "Car Payment" is due in "3 days."
Anyone have any feedback about this?
Thanks!
technical aspect of setting event reminders or a discussion of how Outlook
2003's reminders actually work... It seems that the question I'm about to
ask deals both with reminders set on events/calendar appointments AND tasks.
Let's say that I set a task in my tasklist to pay my car payment on "Friday,
October 5th," with a reminder set to alert me three days in advance. When I
set the reminder, I ask it to give me the reminder at 9:00am. If I turn on
my computer and open Microsoft Outlook '03 at 9:05am on October 2nd (the day
I should get the reminder), the reminder window comes up and tells me that my
"Car Payment" is "5 minutes overdue."
When I set the reminder, it seems to take on the reminder time as the actual
time the task is due, as opposed to the time I simply want to be reminded of
the upcoming task in 3 days. I would have expected the reminder box to say
that my "Car Payment" is due in "3 days."
Anyone have any feedback about this?
Thanks!