Great explanation. Thanks, Art. I appreciate your help. Regards, Tim ---- Art Alexion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 13:20 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Okay, that makes sense, though it seems a little counter intuitive. I > > normally don't fill out all the contact information, just names and > > email addresses, so for me it would be more work to go through all my > > contacts than to just input each birthday as an annually repeating > > event. > > The idea is that by putting the information there, you can go to a > contact and see their date of birth, without having to search the > calendar. Doing it the other way works in giving you a reminder via the > calendar but is clumsy in querying a birthday when you have a name. > > For example, I can't remember my uncle Sluggo's birthday. With the > contact-driven data, I can go into Uncle Sluggo's contact info. If I > just input it directly into the calendar, I have to search or browse the > entire calendar. > > In any case, either way works, so use the one that works for you. > > > > > > Is there any way to remove the Birthdays & Anniversaries calendar? > > I don't think so because it isn't a real calendar; more like a vFolder > or a search folder. > > > -- > Art Alexion > MIS > x3075
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