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Reminder object (Outlook)

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Represents an Outlook reminder.

Remarks

Reminders allow users to keep track of upcoming appointments by scheduling a pop-up dialog box to appear at a given time. In addition to appointments, reminders can occur for tasks, contacts and email messages.

Use Reminders (index), where index is the name or index number of the reminder, to return a single Reminder object.

Reminders are created programmatically when a new Microsoft Outlook item, such as an AppointmentItem object, is created and the item 's ReminderSet property is set to True.

Use the Reminders collection's Remove method to remove a Reminder object from the collection. Once a reminder is removed from its associated item, the AppointmentItem object's ReminderSet property is set to False.

Example

The following example displays the caption of the first reminder in the collection.

Sub ViewReminderInfo() 
 
 'Displays information about first reminder in collection 
 
 
 
 Dim colReminders As Outlook.Reminders 
 
 Dim objRem As Reminder 
 
 
 
 Set colReminders = Application.Reminders 
 
 'If there are reminders, display message 
 
 If colReminders.Count <> 0 Then 
 
 Set objRem = colReminders.Item(1) 
 
 MsgBox "The caption of the first reminder in the collection is: " & _ 
 
 objRem.Caption 
 
 Else 
 
 MsgBox "There are no reminders in the collection." 
 
 
 
 End If 
 
 
 
End Sub

The following example creates a new appointment item and sets the ReminderSet property to True, adding a new Reminder object to the Reminders collection.

Sub AddAppt() 
 
 'Adds a new appointment and reminder to the reminders collection 
 
 Dim objApt As AppointmentItem 
 
 
 
 Set objApt = Application.CreateItem(olAppointmentItem) 
 
 objApt.ReminderSet = True 
 
 objApt.Subject = "Tuesday's meeting" 
 
 objApt.Save 
 
End Sub

Methods

Name
Dismiss
Snooze

Properties

Name
Application
Caption
Class
IsVisible
Item
NextReminderDate
OriginalReminderDate
Parent
Session

See also

Reminder Object Members Outlook Object Model Reference

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