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All unhandled errors (aka crashes) will take your email…
And inform you when a hot fix/service pack resolves that issue
(I choose Outlook as the first application to implement this, as that is what I get the most crashes)
Figure: All crashes will take your email
If I get more than one contacts with the same email address when checking the names, I’d like to know which is in my Local Contacts and which in the Exchange User List. So please add a column to identify this.
For instance, if I know the one in my Local Contacts is the latest and the first one is identified as Local Contacts, I can select it easily without checking details of these two.
Figure: No column identifies where contacts are from
It’s more efficient to have a ‘Find’ option in the right click menu of the ‘Contacts’ folder. With it we can look for certain contacts easily.
Figure: ‘Find’ option is needed
When you get an appointment in your inbox, they often have a Reminders in them, you can’t see them, but they are there. The main issue is that I don’t want the reminder going off later.
Figure: The Appointment’s reminder information, needs to be visible and changable
When you add a contact and it is the same name, then it offers to merge the contacts (and if you say ‘yes’ it deletes it). Can you please add a note on the deleted record “This record was deleted by the Contact Merge Tool”.
Figure: Contacts with the same name
Figure: Contacts details
Make it easy to find all the appointments in your inbox (that you have not accepted or declined).
Eg. I want to say something like “Type: Calendar” or “Type: Appointment” however neither one works.
Figure: Add option “Type” to allow you to find appointments
Figure: Search help needs a list of all options you can manually type (that is not in the “Criteria” dropdown)
OWA 2007 should add a Refresh button on the right click menu:
Figure: Need add Refresh button on the menu
OWA 2007 should add a FormatBrush button to copy the format from one place to other places, which also make it consistent with Outlook like other buttons.
Need add ‘Open folder’ menu item on right click menu in the search results.
Figure: Right click menu needs ‘Open folder’ or ‘Open email location’ if you want to be consistent with Vista Search like below
Figure: Outlook needs this ‘Open file location’ in their search results
Be aware that people create new email addresses all the time and for all types of reasons, eg. for mailing lists.
Figure: Looking up the address’ contact
When looking up a contact and the email address does not exist. This message box is not good enough. It should say “Here are a list of suggestions that have email addresses that are very close.”
Figure: This dialog is not good enough