Can you set reminder to specific times?

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I've been battling for years with Outlook 2010 when it comes to reminders, whenever I set a reminder it seems like I get reminded at odd hours of the morning or night and get woken up. I know you can set not to be reminded or you can set anything from hours to half a days, two weeks. But this morning I got woke up three different times from 3 AM to 6 AM by a loud Outlook reminder. So now it's time to just stop ignoring it and see if there's a way that I can fix it. I'm hoping someone here can tell me if it's possible.

Now I know I can set the volumes by just adjusting my computer volume, however, it is Big Brother season And I watch the live feeds and in order to hear everything properly, you got a set your volume at least 1/3 of the way up. Now to most of you what I just said won't make a bit of sense unless you're a big brother fan

For example, if I set a reminder and if I wanted to be reminded in a week a day, is it possible to set a specific time, for example, set a reminder for 9:30 in the morning.
 
Outlook has default reminder times - set in File, Options. One for Appointments (minutes before), one for tasks (specific time of day). All day events have an 18 hour by default, which could account for the 6 am reminders.

You can also select a specific reminder time for tasks and appointments when you create them
 
Diane Poremsky said:
Outlook has default reminder times - set in File, Options. One for Appointments (minutes before), one for tasks (specific time of day). All day events have an 18 hour by default, which could account for the 6 am reminders.

You can also select a specific reminder time for tasks and appointments when you create them
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Thanks, that is what I would like to do. I often set a reminder on my calendar and I would like them to remind me for example, at 10:00 AM. I have yet to figure out how to get close to that with the time options now default in Outlook 2010
 
Diane Poremsky said:
Outlook has default reminder times - set in File, Options. One for Appointments (minutes before), one for tasks (specific time of day). All day events have an 18 hour by default, which could account for the 6 am reminders.

You can also select a specific reminder time for tasks and appointments when you create them
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How do I do it??
 
Calendar reminders are 'minutes before' the meeting start. Task reminders are at a specific time unless you change it - flagged messages will use the task settings as long as the flag is for tomorrow or later - today flags fire at 1 hour before the end of the work day.

To set all appointment reminders to 10 am would require a macro to do the calculationg.
 
Diane Poremsky said:
Calendar reminders are 'minutes before' the meeting start. Task reminders are at a specific time unless you change it - flagged messages will use the task settings as long as the flag is for tomorrow or later - today flags fire at 1 hour before the end of the work day.

To set all appointment reminders to 10 am would require a macro to do the calculationg.
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Well, that sounds out of my league, I didn't even know Outlook uses macros, I guess I will have to just deal with it as it is.
Thanks for the help
 
I was thinking about the Macro answer you gave me and I did a little bit of research about macros in Outlook 2010 and I ended up right back here on your forum.

To help me understand the calendar reminders in Outlook 2010 can you please tell me this, If I set a reminder for next Monday, does Outlook consider Sunday night at 12:01AM as "Monday?
 
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