Integration of Excel and MS Outlook

I am looking to do some sort of integration of Excel and Microsoft Outlook for a project... I'll explain

So on Excel we have a "work request sheet" for 2 different designers and they are getting frustrated by not getting email reminders of due dates and would like emails and reminders daily/weekly of when things are do and what not. They also would like these due dates to appear in their Outlook calenders...

I don't know if this is a stupid question, but obviously I am quite new to this so any helpful responses are greatly appreciated. Thanks so much

From another forum..... http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/showthread.php?t=481013