NEW Outlook (2024) Snooze calendar reminders to "5 minutes before"

Anonymous
2024-03-25T21:21:55+00:00

On the new version of Outlook, the only snooze options for calendar reminders are 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, and 2 hours. The problem is when the calendar reminder is set to hit a day before the appointment, none of those intervals are enough to get it out of your face for the rest of the day. Is there a way to bring back the 12 hour snooze, and the 5 minutes before snooze, at the least?

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-05-13T11:20:58+00:00

    Dear MICROSOFT, please bring back the functionality of the flexible Snooze feature. What you implemented in the new Outlook doesn't fit the corporate users needs at all. Thank you.

    No, that is not what I am saying. I set Tasks as reminders that sometimes I dismiss right away as it was just a quick reminder, and sometimes I snooze them to come back to at a later date or to just keep as an ongoing reminder. In the old Outlook, the standard snooze options are 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, 4 hours, 8 hours, 0.5 days, 1 day, 2 days, 3 days, 4 days, 1 week or 2 weeks. The old Outlook also allows you to enter custom snooze time, so you could reset a Task for 8 weeks, or 30 weeks, or however you long you would prefer. The new outlook only allows you to snooze 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour or 2 hours. The new version does not allow a user to enter a custom snooze time either. ImageImage

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-04-07T04:52:09+00:00

    Thank you for taking the time to post Rick (@Rick Carlson1)

    I agree with your assessment wholeheartedly and further suggest it is an arrogant organisation that establishes & host a 'community user group' but doesn't interact with it, not even to acknowledge receipt of the feedback posted

    If nothing else I find it reassuring that I am not alone in my frustration, so a big 'shout out' thank you for seeing me; to all that have added their voice to me question / request and I'm delighted that although my employer forces me to use micrsofts products, I use Linux, Google / Android and LibreOffice outside of work

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-04-06T13:19:31+00:00

    Another case of Microsoft and their developers with God complexes who think they know best. Let's get rid of this "New" Outlook all together and go back to the old one that actually worked and everyone liked.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-03-27T15:11:02+00:00

    100% agree we need the Snooze button back! Many times an reminder pops while you are the middle of something and need 5-10 mins to complete before reacting to the reminder.

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-03-11T11:21:09+00:00

    Yet another "improvement" that obviously wasn't road tested with human beings to see if it would actually be for the better or worse....

    GET THE SNOOZE OPTIONS BACK PLEASE!!!!

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