I wish they would add it -- I'm you can tell that Russ is a man and probably
isn't the one who does holiday cards or keeps up with birthdays.

Here is why you need it: Why do I want to create separate contacts for
3-year olds? But I want to know when birthdays come up. I don't use Outlook
for business nearly as much as I use it to manage my personal contacts.

In the Palm platform you could use a program called "Happy Days" to add all
the birthdays to your calendar. It was an extra step, but very handy. I
created a "Birthdays" Field and then could list all the special events like
this:

* Mary 6/6/1968
* Bruce 5/9/68
* Shannon 4/28/99
*Wedding Mary&Bruce

Then I'd run "Happy Days" and it would know to look up all the asterisks in
that field and load them into the calendar. But not only would it put Mary's
name on her birthdate, I would get an alarm 3 days in advance (that is what I
set it for -- time enough for a card) AND it would list her age (or the
anniversary number). It was GREAT!!!

And why can't Outlook come better-prepared to enter families???? As it is
not I have to pick a main person then list the spouse on a separate page?
Then when I print it out it's a pain to get the envelope to read "Mary, Bruce
and Shannon Smith". It's just so frustrating to enter them now. In the
"contact" field I have to write "Mary Bruce & Shannon Smith" -- no commas or
anything like that -- in order for it to come out ok. I'm tricking it into
knowing all the family names.

This is NOT non-standard info to me, this is very important to me as a
person in wedding/events business.