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‘Ignore Conversation’ moves to the ‘Deleted Items’ folder. That folder is stuff I know I deleted.
I think that it should default to a new folder ‘Deleted – Ignored’
Figure: ‘Ignored’ conversations are currently moved to ‘deleted’ folder
I’m on a long flight right now traveling from the USA to Australia doing emails. It would be great to have a feature that made you need to use Microsoft’s iOS app over the build it Apple mail app. I have one that would make me always use it!
I’m forgetful so when I get an email and think “I’ll call them back” or “I’ll add the to the VSTS backlog later” or “Speak to my girls at home” etc
I find I too often forget.
I’d love tags “To call”… “Add to backlog”… “My girls” etc.
Any +1’s on this? Or do you have a better system than your memory?
Figure: Microsoft’s iOS mail app needs custom Tags
Figure: Apple’s iOS mail app does not have custom Tags
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 you have a PowerPoint using an older version of a template and want to:
Can I not have an option to ‘Check for Updates’ for the template, instead of starting a fresh new PowerPoint and importing the slides over?
Related: Do you know how to see if your PowerPoint is using the latest template?
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
Figure: Wish I could copy this as text via a button ‘Edit Macro XML’ (like a SQL view in a query)
It is very important that Microsoft Word picks up all spelling/grammar issues. It may be one little bug, but more likely this bug could affect a lot of possible sentences.
More and more people with English as their second language rely on this to make their emails professional.
When you type a sentence using the verb in the singular form with the subject is in the plural form, “Spelling and Grammar Check” tool does not pick it up as an error unless you keep typing more words after that.
E.g. “For documents that belongs on the inside…” should be “For documents that belong on the inside…”
Figure: BUG – Microsoft Word’s Spelling and Grammar Check tool can’t pick up some correct words
Figure: BUG – Microsoft Word’s Spelling and Grammar Check tool does not highlight the error if you have “…” at the end of the sentence
Note: We also rely on this with our Do you use Microsoft Word’s spelling and grammar checker to make your web content professional? rule.