Outlook Reminder Sounds: How to Download and Customize Them

Here is the best app to use to customize the outlook reminder sounds

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Updated onOctober 4, 2023

updated onOctober 4, 2023

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Some users utilize Outlook’s calendar to schedule event reminders.Outlookhas a reminder sound that alerts users to scheduled events on their calendars. You can customize Outlook’s default reminder sound by changing it to one downloaded from the web.

How can I download and configure Outlook’s reminder sounds?

1. Download Outlook reminder sounds

First, you’ll need to download a newOutlookreminder sound. You can get Outlook reminder sounds from numerous alert sound effect website depositories. Check out the Free Sound Clips website, which includes anAlert Sounds page.

You can download numerous reminder alert sounds for Outlook in the WAV file format.

To download a sound file at Free Sound Clips, click the link for it in the Sound Effects column. Then, you can select to download either a WAV or MP3 file. Download the WAV file.

Sounds4email is another website that includes a repository of sound effects. Those sound effects are designed primarily for email notifications, but you can still utilize some for reminder sounds.

Click a sound on theSounds4email siteto open a preview clip window for it, from which you can select to download its ZIP file.

After downloading the reminder sound, you’ll need to extract the ZIP file for the audio clip. Click the sound effect’s ZIP file in File Explorer to do that. Click theExtract allbutton. Then press theExtractbutton.

2. Change the reminder sound in Outlook

When a reminder alert pops up, it will include the sound effect you selected. That sound effect can be any short audio clip downloaded from the web (in WAV format).

Now that you know how to customize sounds, why not check our guide on how toset reminders in Outlookto learn more about them?

However, you can also download sound effects with other file formats and convert them to WAV format. If you want to do that, first check out this handy list with thebest audio convertersyou can download now.

Outlook Reminder Sounds: How to Download and Customize Them#

How can I download and configure Outlook’s reminder sounds?#

1. Download Outlook reminder sounds#

2. Change the reminder sound in Outlook#

Outlook Reminder Sounds: How to Download and Customize Them

How can I download and configure Outlook’s reminder sounds?

1. Download Outlook reminder sounds

2. Change the reminder sound in Outlook