Reminder Object

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 e-mail 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

See Also

• Outlook Object Model Reference
• Reminder Object Members