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| Tags: 2003, anniversaries, contacts, delete, outlook |
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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?" |
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Display your calendar in a by Event view, select the Anniversary category and press delete.
-- 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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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?" |
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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" wrote: 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?" |
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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?" |
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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! :-) "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote: 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. || || -- || 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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chdavis14 wrote:
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! But that doesn't delete the anniversary events, it just dissociates them from the contacts. I thought you wanted to delete the events. -- Brian Tillman |
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