How do I set up birthdays for both husband and wife ?

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BIRTHDAY for BOTH Husband and Wife

Is it out of the question for Microsoft to incorporate this overlooked
item??? At least for the spouse ..... that would seem to be very much
needed (and frankly obvious) ... when anyone is using outlook for typical
personal address book type information.

Does the person(s) responsible for the product OUTLOOK read the messages
from this forum? or is there another way to report this issue???
 
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Is it out of the question for Microsoft to incorporate this overlooked
item??? At least for the spouse ..... that would seem to be very much
needed (and frankly obvious) ... when anyone is using outlook for typical
personal address book type information.
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You must remember that the VAST majority of Outlook installs are in
CORPORATE settings where spouses' birthdays are not normally needed.
Does the person(s) responsible for the product OUTLOOK read the messages
from this forum?
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No they don't

or is there another way to report this issue???
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What "issue"? You don't HAVE to use Outlook you know....
 
Normally if you want to store information on 2 people, you create 2
contacts. Outlook was designed for business use. Sounds like you want
something else designed for families.
 
I'll go you one further and suggest that Outlook's existing Contact
structure, that is normally one Contact record per individual, is entirely
appropriate to handle families. I think that today it's the norm for family
members to have different contact info, such as cell numbers and email
addresses, even though they would also share some contact info, such as home
phone and home address.

That being said, I'm not unsympathetic to the thrust of the OP's comments.
It would be nice to have some capability in Outlook (or an add-in) to
explicitly link Contacts in a "Family" structure; something beyond the
existing Contact linking capability.
 
For something like this, I would use the company field and put either the
head of the household's name there or the person in the family I was closest
to. You can then use 'new contact at company' when adding family members
and the group by company view (can rename the field in the view) to better
organize them.

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