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"Tickler" notes in Word or Excel?

post #1 of 5
3/17/10 at 5:59am
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I'm using Word and Excel 2007. Is there any way to create a "pop-up" to remind me of important dates and events that are coming up? I'm thinking more of work dates (sending a letter to somebody to remind him that his plans need to be recorded, for example). When I would open either Word or Excel, which I use every day, a pop-up would appear to remind me that Mr. Jones needs to contact me about completing his stormwater project.

So much of my work is time-sensitive and I'm worried that I may forget to do something. I haven't yet, but you never know.

I'd rather not download a third-party app if I don't have to because I have everything in Word and in Excel and it would just mean even more work to enter something into yet another program.

Does anybody have any ideas? Thank you.
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post #2 of 5
3/17/10 at 7:08am
Do you use outlook for email, I know it does have a scheduler - we use it at work
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post #3 of 5
3/17/10 at 7:50am
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Yes, we do and I suggested Outlook's scheduler because I use it for other stuff, but my boss wants me to find something in Word or Excel since all my notes are there.
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post #4 of 5
3/17/10 at 7:56am
I just can't see how it would work because the database type feature is not there to send the information to the note

The only thing I can see that is like what you want is this
http://word.tips.net/Pages/T001765_P...s_in_Word.html
But you would be manually typing in the info anyway so may as well use a scheduler

Many calendars have import features where you could set them to import data daily from word and excel, but you would still be using a 3rd piece of software

We use airset.com at work to set our calendars, reminders, joint files that we all may need etc and can log into it from any browser
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post #5 of 5
3/17/10 at 12:08pm
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I think we figured it out. It does use Excel (haven't figured out if we can do it in Word, but as long as I can do it in Excel, I'm good to go), but the notice comes through in Outlook. It's actually pretty neat.

Thank you for your help!
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