Bring Back the Reminder Bell for Appointments in Outlook 2010

For centuries, it has been easy to tell if your upcoming meetings were going to pop a reminder ahead of time -- you could see a small bell-shaped icon in the appointment block in Outlook's calendar view. Then, Microsoft inexplicably took it away in Outlook 2007, and brought it back in Outlook 2010 -- but turned it off by default. If you want to restore that little bell icon, here's how to do it.

Recently, How-To Geek reminded us all that it was possible to bring back the bell icon in Outlook appointments. And it's really easy to do -- no registry hacking needed:

1. Click File, and then click Options.
2. On the Outlook Options dialog box, click the Calendar tab.
3. Check the box for Show bell icon on the calendar for appointments and meetings with reminders.