Getting Rid of those Pesky Blue Indicators

If you are someone who works with many people and uses several Microsoft Outlook calendars to keep you organized, then you know about the blue notification indicators next to individual calendars. If not, they are a simple number that looks like this:

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As people add appointments to your public calendar these indicators
can grow larger and larger by the minute. Some folks don't even pay attention to them, while others (myself included) can't stand them! It's kinda like allowing your email SPAM folder to grow to astronomical proportions.

Recently, our school updated software to Microsoft Outlook 2010 and one of the first things I noticed was that Microsoft made it more challenging to remove these pesky blue indicators, but not impossible. Below is a tutorial for how to remove these notifications. Enjoy!