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Hi VanguardLH,
As I've said to Diane, I completely accept your logic!
However, there must be some way to use one or other of the calender features
"automatically" and independently of the programme being open, as I have
described was the case with my old XP machine!
I'm running Vista Ultimate, and Office 2007 Enterprise edition,
six h
"VanguardLH" wrote:
As I've said to Diane, I completely accept your logic!
However, there must be some way to use one or other of the calender features
"automatically" and independently of the programme being open, as I have
described was the case with my old XP machine!
I'm running Vista Ultimate, and Office 2007 Enterprise edition,
six h
"VanguardLH" wrote:
> six-h wrote:
>
> No program can do anything unless it has been loaded into memory. If it
> isn't running, it obviously can't do anything because the program does
> NOT exist anywhere. Files on your disk don't run anything.
>
> You mentioned MS Works Suite. Nope, it if is alerting you of calendar
> events than it *is* running in the background. If it weren't then it
> couldn't tell you anything.
>
> You never mention WHICH version of Outlook you use. OL2002 requires a
> registry edit (some add-ons make the option available) to minimize it to
> a tray icon. OL2003, and after, have an option to minimize Outlook to a
> tray icon. Obviously you ARE leaving Outlook running can it can
> actually do something.
>
>
> > OK, being retired, and of a certain age, I don't generally have outlook
> > running, even minimised!
> > I would however appreciate reminders of Birthdays, appointments, etc. whilst
> > working at my PC. (notification of received mail would be nice too!)
> > Is it possible to set anything up that would achieve this for me?
> >
> > thanks,
> > six-h
> > > running, even minimised!
> > I would however appreciate reminders of Birthdays, appointments, etc. whilst
> > working at my PC. (notification of received mail would be nice too!)
> > Is it possible to set anything up that would achieve this for me?
> >
> > thanks,
> > six-h
> No program can do anything unless it has been loaded into memory. If it
> isn't running, it obviously can't do anything because the program does
> NOT exist anywhere. Files on your disk don't run anything.
>
> You mentioned MS Works Suite. Nope, it if is alerting you of calendar
> events than it *is* running in the background. If it weren't then it
> couldn't tell you anything.
>
> You never mention WHICH version of Outlook you use. OL2002 requires a
> registry edit (some add-ons make the option available) to minimize it to
> a tray icon. OL2003, and after, have an option to minimize Outlook to a
> tray icon. Obviously you ARE leaving Outlook running can it can
> actually do something.
>
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