About Calendar reminders

In Microsoft Office Outlook Web Access, you can set reminders on your appointments and meetings. You can then determine how long before an appointment or a meeting the reminder message will appear.

Set reminders

After you enable calendar reminders, you can activate them whenever you create an appointment or plan a meeting.

1. When creating a Calendar item, select the Reminder check box in the New Appointment or New Meeting Request form.
2. The default reminder interval is 15 minutes. To be reminded at a time other than 15 minutes before the appointment or meeting, select another time from the list.

Tip  To view your reminders at any time, in Calendar, click View Reminders on the toolbar.

Dismiss or snooze reminders

When the Reminder dialog box opens, it lists all Calendar items and tasks for which reminders aren't dismissed. Subject lists the name of the item, and Due In indicates how long until the item starts or is due. If the scheduled time for a meeting or appointment or the due date for a task is passed, the reminder indicates how long the item is overdue.

Dismissing a reminder closes the reminder and ends all future reminders for the selected item.

To dismiss a reminder:

• In the reminder, select one or more items, and then click Dismiss. To dismiss all items, click Dismiss All.

Tip   To view the details of an item, select it, and then click Open Item.

If you don't want to dismiss a reminder, you can set it to snooze. Snoozing closes the current reminder temporarily. After a period of time that you designate (the default is five minutes), the reminder opens again.

1. In the reminder, select the item you want to snooze.
2. Under Click Snooze to be reminded again in, use the drop-down list to specify when you want to receive another reminder.
3. Click Snooze.

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