Where is the status bar, as in Internet Explorer?

When you receive HTML email, you want to be able to see the URL when you hover over a hyperlink.

This autocomplete feature is very useful however when I move to a new PC and setup my outlook with my old Outlook Data File (.pst) I lose all my history of email addresses. Very disappointing.

If we want to keep it Microsoft expects us to figure out NK2 files or something

In addition this file appears to be binary, instead of XML, so we cant work with them eg. I want to combine 2 files together from different PCs.

The current Junk Mail/Adult Content filters do nothing more than highlight messages in the Inbox. And the filtering mechanism itself isn’t particularly good. Sure, third-party products like SpamNet work with Outlook. But Microsoft ought to be able to a better job itself.

Yes, it would be nice not to have to switch to Outlook Express to use newsgroups. And although I would like to see the functionality in Outlook, I am of the belief that there are so many other things that the Outlook team needs to do, that it just cant be justified.

Newsgroups are not used by average Jo. The Outlook team should stick to core issues.

When I am in Sydney and want to make a 9AM appointment (New York time) it should be as simple as choosing [9am] [New York] Currently I have to work it backwards and enter it in Sydney time. All I need is a “Time Zone” combo. The crazy thing is if you cycle through the properties of a calendar item the “Time Zone” value is there – it is just not exposed on the UI. Even when I reply to an appointment I can see both time zones! As an example I get:

Webinar:    .NET Enterprise Services Essentials
Time:       Thursday, April 17, 2003, 11:00 a.m. PDT (2:00 p.m. EST)
Duration:   One hour, including a Q&A

Our observations suggest that all calendar entries created with Microsoft Outlook are in Rich Text format. Seeing this has a message size overhead and is less supported by all mail clients, we’d like to see an option for HTML formatting. From what we can tell, the iCalendar format that Outlook makes use of does not have any requirements for rich text.

Users should be able to access the HTML like in Internet Explorer with View > Source. This could be implemented like Frontpage with a HTML tab at the bottom of the window.

Depending on the editor used to create an email (eg Word vs. Outlook), size can vary dramatically. Unfortunately, which editor the sender uses cannot always be controlled. There should be a ‘Compress Email’ option to optimize emails using the default editor.

The context menus for the grids in Outlook should have all of the filtering features found in Access.