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It is 2018 and I feel that Outlook is really old when I see it trying to access the server when I am not on the internet.
It is just silly making me click on the link.
Figure: The Outlook engine wastes my time and makes me click “Search in email stored on this computer”
When I touch an image I want it to enlarge… ideally to full screen. Like the common Lightbox approach in websites.
Figure: Clicking should enlarge that image
Outlook currenly uses 12 AM to 12 PM for All Day Events. This creates problem when it is for different time zone. A full-day event is a full-day event, no matter what time zone your are in.
It would be useful to use additional time zone feature in outlook to display local time zone without changing time of operating system. Either you can change all day event to local time zone setting.
One best option to handle with this problem is storing all time zone using UTC(Universal Cordinated Time) so that there is no need for any other time settings and appointment can be rendered using local time zone.
Ken Getz says more on this:
Time Zone Disaster – All Outlook Appointments Bite the Dust
If someone says “Let catch up at 4pm PST time” then you should be easily able to convert to your time e.g. Sydney time
Currently, you need a tool like timeanddate.com | Time Zones | Meeting Planner
I know I can run ‘Compact Now’ manually. I just did some archiving and ran it now and it took about 12 hours (overnight)… however I should know that I don’t have to.
And if the UI is good, after I install Outlook 2007 SP2, and since things changed, (where you allowed the internal free space to grow – for a trade-off to allow for better locality of writes), I would see this in the UI.
Figure: This UI needs 3 features added
We share our calendars and one of the things that screws scheduling meetings, is because many people put in a non-appointments as appointments (people look busy when they are not). e.g. ‘Pay rent’ when they actually just need an email each Tuesday.
There is another advantage to removing appointments of this type, people get fewer reminders. So they don’t get desensitized to extra reminders that are not time critical.
PS: I don’t really want to install an outlook add-in (but I’ll take anything)
Figure:’Pay Rent’ just another non-appointment as an appointment – because of missing functionality in Outlook/Exchange
Figure: On the Outbox, wish it had an extra menu item “Send selected (3 emails)”
Figure: Using categories is great for mailing to a group of people
I want to send an email to those tagged with ‘iphone’…
How would I do it?
Figure: Add an entry after ‘Contacts’… As I would expect to find ‘Contacts of a certain category’ here
Figure: Looking for “Email” option on the right hand side… or it could be called “Send email to Selection”
Figure: Bingo… found it on the Actions menu
So I would change
“Create | New Message to Contact”
to
“Send email to Selection”
Figure: When opening a contact, support multiple selection
Regarding http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832925
I didn’t have any of the registry keys and I found the article a bit confusing. Especially when I could not copy and paste from the article to regedit.
The worse thing is that copy and paste from the KB to outlook fails. So I have 4 suggestions for the KB:
#A – Add another column
Figure: #1 Add a column in front to indicate ANSI or Unicode
#B – Copy & paste from the KB doesn’t work because regedit doesn’t allow 0x0000c800 as hex number
Figure: You should be able to copy and paste from the KB to the Regedit
#C – Add a little explanation on how to get the HEX numbers
E.g.:
#D – How do I know that my changes were applied?
Tell me?