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Sometimes you just want to sync quickly (eg. over GPRS) and one big, fat and unexpected 10MB email is coming without you knowing and without a way to skip it. So please improve this dialog, so you can see if you have a bottleneck and give an option to skip the email.
Figure: My UI suggestion would be to show the top 5 emails in size (sorted descending) with a button on each row “Skip for now”
I think it would be great to never receive another email from a person without a subject!
Figure: Bad example – No Validation when sending an email
Figure: Good example – Validation when sending an appointment
Well actually they can add images as same as emails. but because they are stored as RTF (instead of HTML like normal email messages) so they convert to 4-5MB attachments.
The worst thing is the syncing problems with Windows Mobile devices.
PS: I think it should be easier to insert Live maps (or google maps) for directions.
Figure: The Appointment with large image
Add a ‘Configure’ button to ‘Indexing Status…’ form:
Figure: This Indexing Status form needs a ‘Configure’ button to take you to the below form
That takes you to ‘Indexing Options’ form:
Figure: You need to be able to easy to get to the ‘Indexing Options’ form from Outlook
The problem I find with Outlook 2007 (also occurs in Outlook 2003) is that I often close down Outlook, wait a short while then shut down Vista… yet invariably when I start up again, it says the data files weren’t closed properly. I can only presume this has something to do with the fact that it seems to keep receiving mail even when it’s shut down. I have had the Outlook OST file so corrupted it was impossible to recover it, so I had to re-synchronize > 10+ GB of mails.
I use two laptops (both Vista) and I would say that at least 60% of the time I start up Outlook 2007 on one, it says the file was not closed properly. I don’t know what is causing it, but it just adds to the many pain points of Outlook 2007.
The likely cause of this is that some “3rd party” application is keeping Outlook running.
When I am processing an email in my inbox, I want to complete it and its related messages. Currently, Outlook 2007 only gives you the “Related” button and it works very slowly and poorly because Outlook needs to search the related emails in all folders.
Figure: Find related message
It will be great to support pasting image in OWA. Now the OWA only allow us to add the images to attachments. This will affect reading and the attachments are easily lost while responding.
In Outlook, the size of an email in RTF format is much larger than that in HTML format.
Figure: The different size of the same mail in two formats
So we suggest: remove the RTF option in the message format to save space and make emails faster.
Figure: Here to select the message format
Use strikethrough for the deleted items.
Use blue with italics for the outbox.
When you select an Outbox item – do not change it back to normal from italics.
Figure: Search Results
Please make a reminder open on a separate thread. When you have a lot the Inbox UI does not respond.
Figure: Many Inbox Reminders