How to hide birthday appointments in calendar in Outlook?

Author Kelly Last modified 2025-04-03

As you know, when you create a contact with birthday in Microsoft Outlook, it will automatically create a birthday appointment into your default calendar. This kind of birthday appointments may stuff up your calendar, and make it hard to find out the right meetings or appointments quickly. In this article, I will help you to hide all automatically generated birthday appointments in Calendar.

To hide all birthday appointments that are automatically generated with creating contacts, please do as following:

Step 1: Shift to the Calendar view, and open the calendar that you will hide all birthday appointments in.

Step 2: Click the "View Settings" button on the "View" tab.

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Note: In Outlook 2007, you can click the "View" > "Current View" > "Customize Current View".

Step 3: In the popping up Advanced View Settings dialog box, please click the "Filter" button.

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Step 3: Then the Filter dialog box comes out, go to the "Advanced" tab, and:

(1) Click the "Filed" > "All Appointment fields" > "Subject";

(2) Click the "Conditior" (or "Condition") box, and select the "doesn’t contain" from the drop down list;

(3) In the "Value" box, enter the text of "Birthday".

(4) Click the "Add to List" button.

(5) Click the "OK" button.

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Step 4: Click the "OK" button in the Advanced View Settings dialog box to apply this filter.

Then all birthday appointments are hidden from opened calendar immediately.

Note: You can save the custom view with clicking the "Change View" > "Save Current View as a New View" on the "View" tab in Outlook 2010 and 2013.

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