See the last option group in the search options, we also need a “Search current folder and subfolders”.

Anastasia, our accountant keeps a bunch of text documents on her desktop which she copies and pastes into emails. It would be a great feature if Outlook and OWA supported creating and inserting templates into new emails. If the new email UI had a drop down list to insert templates then this would make outlook a more powerful tool.

There are already some third party plugins that do this in Outlook:

• Quick Text Hotkey
• Quick Templates for Outlook

But there are no tools to do this in OWA.

When someone replies to an email with an incompatible mail client eg. Blackberry, outlook express you loose your threading inside Outlook. Please:
Add a button to the toolbar “Merge into one Thread?
Also allow you to drag it into that conversation.

By default you should be able to type in a phone number and have it send a fax.
By default you should be able to type in a mobile number and have it send a SMS.

When I put pictures into an Outlook HTML email, they are much less quality and significantly larger, even though Outlook reports that they are 100%.

More information at: More Outlook HTML Email Problems.

Currently Outlook uses 12AM to 12PM to signify a full-day event – this causes problems when you change time zones.

A full-day event is a full-day event, no matter what time zone your are in.

Ken Getz says more on this:
Time Zone Disaster–All Outlook Appointments Bite the Dust.

Add-in Quick Templates for Outlook is designed for fast insertion of text templates into Microsoft Outlook 2000,2002(XP),2003 mail messages. It will help you with entering frequently repeated text fragments, save the time you spend on message writing, and you will have no more misprints in your messages. Quick Templates plugin is a very useful tool for technical support officers, sales personnel and all other people who make an extensive use of email in their work.

You will have to write and format your text only once and then you can insert it in mail messages of any type (HTML, RTF, plain text) repeatedly. the Quick Templates keeps all the text parameters and formatting unchanged, which allows you to create lots of various headings, signatures, phrases, or any other text blocks, lines, or words you use frequently in your correspondence.

With the Quick Templates plugin you can create a template list and insert the text from template into a message by a single mouse click or through a hotkey you can set for each template individually.

When viewing an email, Outlook 2007 shows an image of the sender. Currently this only works if the sender is already in your contact list and has an image assigned to the contact card. Although this is a really nice feature, inserting the picture to each contact is time consuming and if you have hundreds of contacts, you definitely don’t want to go through each one of them.

Outlook has been providing a nice integration with MSN Messenger for a while. It is capable of showing the status of email recipients marked with a little color icon indicating their status (green if available, red if busy, etc).

In a similar fashion, Outlook should be able to make use of the display picture from MSN Messenger and show it on the email message should the sender cannot be found in the contact list.

The Name Intellisense (or ‘auto suggest names’, ‘smart shortlist’, etc) should be referred to the suggeset names checkbox in advanced Email options so people use it consistently