I cannot work out why the "default reminder" time of 10 minutes is not shown when I start a new appointment.

When I click "new appointment" the reminder is set to "none". This has caused me to be late for meetings as a result so I need to sort this out.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

Start by confirming your calender reminder option.

- In Outlook 2010, select File options, Calendar
- Under Calender option, What is your Default reminders option set to? Is it Selected?

Keep me posted.

Hi!

Firstly thanks very much for your help!

Yes that is selected and on 15 minutes but when I am in "calendar>new appointment", the "reminder" select box is set to "none", so when I remember to change it to 15 minutes that's fine but on the odd occasion I don't.... terrible things happen

On other peoples computer by unchecking the "default reminders" box we get the "none" setting in the new appointment.... but mine IS checked.

I cannot work this one out! could it be something to do with the sharing of calendars? Or perhaps an update gone wrong!?

Thanks sooooo much!

You mentioned Shared Calenders. The default reminder option is for your defualt calender only. The second thing you mentioned is

"On other peoples computer by unchecking the "default reminders" box we get the "none" setting in the new appointment"

if you are creating an appointment on a shared calender, the calender settings are those of that defaulted user. If there option is set to none then the calender reminder will be set to none by default.

My question is, the calender you are setting this appointment/reminder on is it a shared calender? or a Second calender that you are the owner of?

Best Regards,

I will look into it thanks