How do I delete Anniversaries in CONTACTS in Outlook 2003?

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All of my contacts have anniversary dates of December 29 and 30 of 1899. How
can I, without going through each of 1000 contacts, change the anniversary
dates to "none?"
 
Display your calendar in a by Event view, select the Anniversary category and press delete.

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After furious head scratching, chdavis14 asked:

| All of my contacts have anniversary dates of December 29 and 30 of
| 1899. How can I, without going through each of 1000 contacts, change
| the anniversary dates to "none?"
 
Thanks Milly, but when I do that, there is no Anniversary category. In fact,
there are no categories. When I right click on category, Anniversary is not
a choice. I did, however, add the Anniversary column to Contacts so I can
view all of the ones that have an Anniversary. Can I delete the dates from
the field? If I choose delete, it deletes the contact, as it is.
 
Ok! I have discovered an answer. First of all, I had to add the Anniversary
category into the column view in Contacts, which I did by customizing the
view. I then sorted Contacts by Anniversary because a few had no
anniversary. I then clicked on an Anniversary cell which had a date in it
and chose "None." Then, by selecting ALL of the contacts with an Anniversary
date using shift and clicking the top and bottom contacts in that category, I
dragged them to the contact that indicated "None" and all the Anniversaries
changed to None! Thank God!

chdavis14 said:
Thanks Milly, but when I do that, there is no Anniversary category. In fact,
there are no categories. When I right click on category, Anniversary is not
a choice. I did, however, add the Anniversary column to Contacts so I can
view all of the ones that have an Anniversary. Can I delete the dates from
the field? If I choose delete, it deletes the contact, as it is.

Milly Staples said:
Display your calendar in a by Event view, select the Anniversary category and press delete.

--Â
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, chdavis14 asked:

| All of my contacts have anniversary dates of December 29 and 30 of
| 1899. How can I, without going through each of 1000 contacts, change
| the anniversary dates to "none?"
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All you had to do was change the View->Arrange By to Events.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, chdavis14 asked:

| Thanks Milly, but when I do that, there is no Anniversary category.
| In fact, there are no categories. When I right click on category,
| Anniversary is not a choice. I did, however, add the Anniversary
| column to Contacts so I can view all of the ones that have an
| Anniversary. Can I delete the dates from the field? If I choose
| delete, it deletes the contact, as it is.
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Display your calendar in a by Event view, select the Anniversary
|| category and press delete.
||
|| --Â
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, chdavis14 asked:
||
||| All of my contacts have anniversary dates of December 29 and 30 of
||| 1899. How can I, without going through each of 1000 contacts,
||| change the anniversary dates to "none?"
 
I understand, but the Anniversaries were not on the Calendar, but they pop up
at the end of every year. Having deleted them out of my calendar long ago,
the Anniversaries were still in contacts and I do not what to have 1000
anniversaries loaded onto the server calendar at the end of the year. There
is no Event view in Contacts --- at least on my Teacher Edition. But, thanks
for your help. Something that you said, "select Anniversary category" when
there was no Anniversary category on my db list, made me poke around a little
more. Thanks for your help. Wouldn't have done it without you! :-)
 
chdavis14 said:
Ok! I have discovered an answer. First of all, I had to add the
Anniversary category into the column view in Contacts, which I did by
customizing the view. I then sorted Contacts by Anniversary because
a few had no anniversary. I then clicked on an Anniversary cell
which had a date in it and chose "None." Then, by selecting ALL of
the contacts with an Anniversary date using shift and clicking the
top and bottom contacts in that category, I dragged them to the
contact that indicated "None" and all the Anniversaries changed to
None! Thank God!
Click to expand...

But that doesn't delete the anniversary events, it just dissociates them
from the contacts. I thought you wanted to delete the events.
 
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