How to Set or Remove Microsoft Outlook Reminders?

You can easily add and remove reminders in MS Outlook; it deals with e-mail messages, contacts and calendar items etc.

• Set Reminder for new appointments or meetings
• Click on File tab
• Then Click open
• After that Click on Calendar
• To turn default reminder on or off for all new appointment, under Calendar option select default reminders check box.
• After selecting check box enter how long before appointment when you want reminder to appear.

For Existing appointments or meetings

• Open appointments

Note: If Open Recurring Item dialog box appears, click on Open this occurrence and click Ok.

• On Appointment tab, in Option group, in Reminder drop-down list, select how long before appointment when you want reminder to appear. To turn a reminder off, select none.

Note: Default reminder time for all day events is 18 hours in advance. Although you can't modify default reminder setting of all day events that you create, you can change reminder time on each appointment

When Reminder won't dismiss, Try number of methods to get rid of:

The most easiest one among them is cleanreminder switch: If your Outlook reminder get corrupt and pop up again and again at your screen then close Outlook and reopen it in cleanreminder switch. To do this, press windows key + R to open Run dialog. Type Outlook.exe /cleanreminders or Outlook /cleanreminders in the Open field and after that press Ok

Note: Make sure there should be a space Outlook and slash; using outlook.exe is optional only program also works.

A few people will need to use full path to outlook.exe. Click browse and look under C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\

Another way is delete appointments

At some instant cleanreminders switch doesn't helps in resolving issue at that time look for appointment that is associated with reminder and delete it. If you won't found them then go for an MFCMAPI to delete reminder.

• Run MFCMAPI
• After that go to Session and logon
• Select your profile
• Then select data where stuck reminder is.
• Expand Root container
• Right click on Reminders and choose Open contents table
• Now new window launches with Title reminders
• Find corrupt reminder then right click on it and select Delete Message. Do not select all reminders, as it delete all appointments.
• Close MFCMAPI

Alternate method delete reminder folder and Microsoft Outlook will rebuild valid reminders.

When you delete reminders from POP3 accounts or PST files right click on pst name that contain corrupt reminder. If you can't find corrupt reminder, delete the entire reminder folder. Outlook will rebuild folder and good reminders.