I am using Outlook 2008. Is there a way to have a re-accuring calendar item keep track of how old someone is. If Dec 1 a friend's birthday, and he will be 32, is there a way to have 32 incremented by one automatically and re-accur every year, so in 5 years, I will know he is 37 ?

Is this some sort of Beta edition? Where do you want the age to show? Life's more painless for the brainless.

If I put a re-accuring appointment in the calendar, Dec 1 is Bob's Birthday -- happens every Dec 1st I would like to be able to Put on Dec 1: bob's birthday 37 years old and have the 1 added to 37 each year. I think I'm asking for too much

Here's half an answer... If there is a way to have a calender event run a macro, you could assign a macro to each birthday-calendar item reminder. e.g. Sub Bobs_Bday() MsgBox "Bob is " & Year(Now()) - 1956 End Sub I know the code will run in Outlook, but I don't know how to trigger it via a calendar event. If this was Excel, I'd write some code to monitor an event and when that event occured, I'd run whatever code was associated with that event. Does Outlook have the ability to "read" a calendar event reminder when it occurs and take some action on that?

Not that I know of. All I do know is that is will display a reminder on the screen when its 15 mins before the scheduled reminder

You could probably just advance the calender in Outlook and put his current age on his birthday. That would only be 5 entries and would be a lot less work. Otherwise you'll have to use Excel and import the info into Outlook. Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen. See: http://www.dicks-clicks.com/excel/o... -

I'm still wondering about the version. I can't find anything about Outlook 2008. Why not just put the year of birth in the details of the entry and subtract from the current year to find the age? Life's more painless for the brainless.