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MS Office Forum / Outlook / New Users / May 2008What can Outlook 2007 do for me?
I am running Vista and was unable to get my old Office 2000 calendar to work (Word and Excel are fine). The built-in Windows Mail and Windows calendar in Vista suck. Calendar regularly fails to alert me to appointments and Mail intermittently loses email bodies when I move them into folders (the header looks OK but the body is from a different email). Under XP I was running Outlook Express. The office 2000 problems might be solvable but I don't have good documentation and have questionable right to use the product anyway (no longer working for the company that provided it). So I've considered buying Outlook 2007. Reading the colorful descriptions of the product it tells me wonderful things it can do but finding out exactly how it performs vanilla tasks like calendar and email gets lost in the glitz. I am assuming I can interface with my POP3 mail accounts and perhaps web mail accounts and I'm also assuming its calendar is as good or better than the one in Office 2000. I'd also like the calendar to be sharable between two or more accounts but separate accounts have their own email spaces. Will Outlook 2007 do these things for me? The calendar is very similar to the Vista Calendar. It can be shared with other user accounts. Outlook 2007, like 2000, supports POP3 accts but in most cases does not support "web accounts".  SignatureDiane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/ Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/ Outlook Tips by email: dailytips-subscribe-request@lists.outlooktips.net Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter: EMO-NEWSLETTER-SUBSCRIBE-REQUEST@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM > I am running Vista and was unable to get my old Office 2000 calendar to > work (Word and Excel are fine). The built-in Windows Mail and Windows [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Will Outlook 2007 do these things for me? As far as calendar sharing goes I haven't been able to get different user accounts on the same machine to do more than get a copy of another Vista calendar. So the respective calendars don't automatically track with each other. It would be preferable if everybody was accessing the same calendar file. A serious problem with Vista calendar is that it is frequently not alerting me to appointments/events. Sometimes days will go by and abruptly I'm presented with a list of past due items. There may be a "good" reason for this happening but I can't imagine what it is as I log into the account associated with the calendar at least once a day. With respect to mail, can different users on a machine have their own instance of Outlook 2007 running with access to their own mail? > The calendar is very similar to the Vista Calendar. It can be shared with > other user accounts. Outlook 2007, like 2000, supports POP3 accts but in [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >> >> Will Outlook 2007 do these things for me? Yes, each user can have their own instance of outlook. To share the same calendar, you need a pst in a location each user can access. Do you have vista calendar's reminder service enabled? it runs even if the calendar is closed to fire reminders, something outlook's does not. SignatureDiane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/ Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/ Outlook Tips by email: dailytips-subscribe-request@lists.outlooktips.net Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter: EMO-NEWSLETTER-SUBSCRIBE-REQUEST@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com > As far as calendar sharing goes I haven't been able to get different user > accounts on the same machine to do more than get a copy of another Vista [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] >>> >>> Will Outlook 2007 do these things for me? I upgraded from Office2k > Office2003 > & recently Office2007, in each case I found OL much improved. The calender/tasks/appointments works fine for me >I am running Vista and was unable to get my old Office 2000 calendar to >work (Word and Excel are fine). The built-in Windows Mail and Windows [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Will Outlook 2007 do these things for me? |
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