Hello,

Can someone help me understand why reminders are not popping in front of
other programs that I may be working in? I was told that this is not the
same behavior as previous versions of office. For some more detail, here is
the scenario:

I have an appointment scheduled for 4:00PM. My reminder should go off at
3:30PM, according to the meeting organizer's settings. At 3:30, I'm working
on an Excel Document, and don't see the reminder. At 4:00, I get a call
asking why I am not at the meeting that I agreed to attend, and it's due to
the fact that my reminder did not pop up in my face to tell me that I had a
meeting.

Now, I do understand that there is the orange flashing notification in my
taskbar, however, if I hide the task bar (as the user in my scenario does),
or if I don't pay attention to those because a myriad of other programs
cause them to occur, I will miss the meeting reminders.

Is there a way to make the reminder come up, no matter what? Was this
something that happened in older versions of Office? (I was told that
during his 7 years at Microsoft, this always happened and meetings were
never missed. Yet I remember things different from Windows 98 and up with
Office 97 and up.)

Any thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you