Outlook Calendar Reminder Defaults To 18 Hours

Microsoft in their infinite wisdom have two defaults for reminders on meeting requests one is for appointments and one for all day events.

Outlook calendar reminder defaults to 18 hours. You can also select a specific reminder time for tasks and appointments when you create them. Confirmed that if i look at those on my calendar in outlook they show 18 hours as well. And as soon as you uncheck all day meeting the reminder should change from 18 hours to 15 minutes.

The option in tools options is for appointments meetings only and the defaults for all day events is hardcoded to 18 hours and. To reset the reminder time to something more adequate to your needs. This has been asked for before but there are no current plans to change the default of 18 hours or to allow a means to modify the value.

Even when you change the default reminder time you still have the choice to specify a custom reminder time for each calendar item that you create. When you are creating an all day event its reminder time will change to 18 hours or 0 5 day automatically and it requires you to change its reminder time manually every time. One for appointments minutes before one for tasks specific time of day.

Although you can t change the default for all of the all day events that you create you can change the reminder time on each appointment. All day events have an 18 hour by default which could account for the 6 am reminders. By default reminders occur 15 minutes before the start of these calendar items.

Normally the default reminder time of all day event is 18 hours in outlook 2007 2010 and 0 5 day in outlook 2013. In outlook 2003 sp3 in calendar an appointment defaults to 18 hours when you double click on a date to set a new appointment. However when you right click and choose new appointment it defaults to 15min.

But they are not all day meetings. Under tools options the reminders are set to 15 min. Regularly the default reminder time for all day events is 18 hours in outlook 2010 while 0 5 day in outlook 2013.