How to create hourly recurrence (every hour) reminder in Outlook?
By default, you can only create Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Yearly recurrence patterns in Outlook. For creating hourly recurrence, there is no direct feature for you in Outlook. To create hourly recurrence reminder in Outlook, we provide you with two methods in this tutorial. Please do as follows.
Create hourly recurrence reminder with snoozing the reminder again in 1 hour
Create hourly recurrence reminder with defining hourly task in Windows
Create hourly recurrence reminder with snoozing the reminder again in 1 hour
For creating hourly recurrence reminder in Outlook, you can create a calendar item, and snooze the reminder again in "1 hour" when the Reminder dialog box pops up.
1. Create an appointment, a meeting or an all-day event in your Outlook calendar.
2. When the "Reminder" dialog box pops up, select "1 hour" in the "Click Snooze to be reminded again in" drop-down list. Then click the "Snooze" button.
3. After snoozing, the "Reminder" dialog box will pop up again 1 hour later, then you need to manually define the item to be reminded again in 1 hour until you dismiss this item.
Create hourly recurrence reminder with defining hourly task in Windows
Besides the above method, you can create hourly recurrence reminder with defining hourly task in Windows 7. Please do as follows.
1. Click the "Start" button, then click the "Control Panel". See screenshot:
2. In the "Control Panel" window, select "Large icons" or "Small icons" in the "View by" drop-down list, then click "Administrative Tools".
3. In the "Administrative Tools" window, double-click the "Task Scheduler". See screenshot:
4. In the "Task Scheduler" window, click "Task Scheduler Library" in the left bar, then click "Create Task" in the right bar in "Actions" section.
5. In the "Create Task" window, do as follows:
1). Go to the "General" tab, type a name for the task in the "Name" box; fill in the "Description" box if needed.
2). Then go to the "Triggers" tab, click the "New" button. See screenshot:
3). In the "New Trigger" dialog box:
a. Select "On a schedule" in the "Begin the task" drop-down list;
b. Check the "Daily" option in the "Settings" section. Configure the "Start" date and time and the "Recur" days for your needs;
c. In the "Advanced settings" section, check the "Repeat task every" box, then select "1 hour" in the "Repeat task every" box. In the "for a duration of" box, select "Indefinitely";
d. (Optional) Check the "Expire" box to define the expiration date and time if needed;
e. Click the "OK" button. See screenshot:
4). Back in the "Create Task" window, go to the "Actions" tab, and click the "New" button.
5). In the "New Action" dialog box, choose "Display a message" in the "Action" drop-down list. In the "Settings" section, fill in the "Title" and "Message" boxes, and click "OK".
6). Then click the "OK" button in the "Create Task" window.
7). Back in the "Task Scheduler" window, click the "Close" button. Then close all dialog boxes.
When it reaches the start time, a dialog box will display every hour as shown below. Please click the "OK" button.
Note: This method does not work in Windows 8. If you need to set an hourly reminder in Windows 8, please visit this link: http://www.askvg.com/fix-cant-create-tasks-to-display-messages-in-windows-8-task-scheduler/.
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