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Reminders in Word
Using Word 2002, SP3
The user has a 13-pg outline document. Originally she pulled it into Outlook 2002 as a task so she could set reminders to prompt her when things need to be completed. She is finding there is way too much scrolling involved this way so has put the document back into Word. She wants to know if there is any way Word can provide her with reminders of when various tasks within the document need to be completed such as she had with Tasks in Outlook. I can't think of anything. Anyone else have any ideas? Thanks! -- Brenda |
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On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:35:03 -0800, Brenda from Michigan
wrote: Using Word 2002, SP3 The user has a 13-pg outline document. Originally she pulled it into Outlook 2002 as a task so she could set reminders to prompt her when things need to be completed. She is finding there is way too much scrolling involved this way so has put the document back into Word. She wants to know if there is any way Word can provide her with reminders of when various tasks within the document need to be completed such as she had with Tasks in Outlook. I can't think of anything. Anyone else have any ideas? Thanks! Word doesn't have anything like that built in. If you want to learn macro programming, you could write a macro that checks the date each time Word starts (assuming you start it every day) and pops up a message when the designated day arrives. But why go to all that trouble? Even though the document itself isn't in Outlook, you can still create a task there. When the reminder appears, you just have to click the document in Windows Explorer (or a desktop shortcut to it, if you make one) to start Word. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Thank you for the information. I've passed along to the user.
-- Brenda "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:35:03 -0800, Brenda from Michigan wrote: Using Word 2002, SP3 The user has a 13-pg outline document. Originally she pulled it into Outlook 2002 as a task so she could set reminders to prompt her when things need to be completed. She is finding there is way too much scrolling involved this way so has put the document back into Word. She wants to know if there is any way Word can provide her with reminders of when various tasks within the document need to be completed such as she had with Tasks in Outlook. I can't think of anything. Anyone else have any ideas? Thanks! Word doesn't have anything like that built in. If you want to learn macro programming, you could write a macro that checks the date each time Word starts (assuming you start it every day) and pops up a message when the designated day arrives. But why go to all that trouble? Even though the document itself isn't in Outlook, you can still create a task there. When the reminder appears, you just have to click the document in Windows Explorer (or a desktop shortcut to it, if you make one) to start Word. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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