Preventing Outlook from automatically creating birthday and anniversary events in calendar when ente

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Paul B.

Is there any way to prevent Outlook from automatically creating birthday and
anniversary events in my calendar when entering them in the contact's
"details" tab? This is extremely annoying because I have my contacts filed
as "Jones, John & Mary" ; and I already had a recurring event in my calendar
named "John's Birthday". Now I have 2 events: "Jones, John & Mary's
Birthday" and "John's Birthday". I don't want to remove the birthday and
anniversary dates from the contact details because I use an MS Access
database based on my Outlook contacts and want the dates saved. I'd like to
keep Outlook from trying to be "smarter" than me.
 
Make individual Contacts and you won't have the problem you describe.
Surely John and Mary aren't joined at the hip and deserve their own entity!

Judy Gleeson
 
Yeah, that's a workaround. But when I print a report of addresses or phone
numbers from Outlook, I like to have both spouses' names listed together.
Bottom line is that Microsoft should not FORCE me to put contact information
in my calendar.
 
I figured out a work-around for this issue. I deleted all of my
self-generated events and found that I could edit the titles of the
Outlook-generated events to my liking (e.g., I changed "Jones, John & Mary's
Birthday" to "John's Birthday"). Outlook seems to have accepted the changes
and has not tried to re-generate another set of events. Hopefully, this
will help others who have the same issue.
Paul B.
 
Paul

you could also make your own fields in Contacts - Field Chooser, New Field.
That could have spouse's b'day etc.

Judy
 
I have a related issue. It's not that I'm getting multiple entries, I'm just
getting the one automatic calendar entry and *I just don't want it!* I
regularly edit a customer contact list that was set up to use the Anniversary
date as the date the customer last contacted us. Every time I edit it, I have
to go through my calendar and delete all of the events that Office insists I
must want. Isn't there some way to just turn this feature off and make it go
away forever?
 
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