do you like 2007?

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I tried to download Outlook 2007, in order to evaluate it, but 2007 wants me
to uninstall 2003. So, I did not install 2007. Do you use 2007? Do you
like it? Thanks.

Talal Itani
 
Talal Itani said:
I tried to download Outlook 2007, in order to evaluate it, but 2007
wants me to uninstall 2003. So, I did not install 2007. Do you use
2007? Do you like it? Thanks.
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I just installed my copy of Office Pro 2007 today. I'm quite impressed,
even though I've only experimented for about 15 minutes at this point.

One odd thing: I thought about removing my prior version of Office before I
installed 2007 (I was using Office 97 Pro with Outlook 2002 and Word 2002 on
top of it, the former installed from my PDA's companion disk and the latter
installed as part of Microsoft Works), but the 2007 install seemed to detect
them and gave me the option of removing them. It did remove OL 2002 and
Word 2002, but Word 97 and Outlook 97 (indeed, all of Office 97) continue to
work.

It will take a little while's use to get used to the somewhat different menu
organization, but, over all, I really like the presentation, especially the
To-Do Pane.
 
Talal said:
I tried to download Outlook 2007, in order to evaluate it, but 2007 wants me
to uninstall 2003. So, I did not install 2007. Do you use 2007? Do you
like it? Thanks.

Talal Itani
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While the other apps in Office 2007 are significantly different than in
previous versions of Office (and for me the jury is still out whether I
like the change or not), Outlook 2007 is pretty much the same. Didn't
take on the new Office look and feel. Appears to be some cosmetic
changes, but on the whole the same. For me it is a downgrade as I
really liked Lookout as my search tool in Outlook 2003. Outlook 2007
apparently has code in it to prevent Lookout from being installed, and
instead I'm forced to feed my search habit using the Microsoft Desktop
search. No where near as useful as Lookout. Things easily found with
Lookout, e,g. "_9012" where this is a part of the text in the file name
of an invoice just are not found with Desktop Search. Further, Desktop
Search presents fewer summary properties about the found files and so
it's harder to figure out what you want to look at to see if it's of
use. I'm not moving back to Outlook 2003, but I do feel it's defintely
not an upgrade. I might be finally doing all my email in Thunderbird
and figure how how to do my Palm syncing of tasks and contacts some
other way.
 
Talal Itani, you wrote on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 01:01:32 GMT:
I tried to download Outlook 2007, in order to evaluate it, but 2007 wants me
to uninstall 2003. So, I did not install 2007. Do you use 2007? Do you
like it?
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I've installed a trial version of Outlook 2007 without uninstalling
Outlook 2003 before. It works faultless in the main but even though I
will go back to Outlook 2003. In my opinion, the new "features" in
Outlook 2007 are not worth to buy Outlook 2007. Also there are some
little annoying bugs (e. g. all of a sudden my rss-feeds are
disappearing so that I have to re-create them [or restore from a backup
I have made]). Also Outlook 2003 works much faster but I think its due
to my computer (PIII 800 MHz, 512 MB RAM) that is too old for Outlook
2007.
 
Talal Itani, you wrote on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 01:01:32 GMT:
I tried to download Outlook 2007, in order to evaluate it, but 2007 wants me
to uninstall 2003. So, I did not install 2007. Do you use 2007? Do you
like it?
Click to expand...

I've installed a trial version of Outlook 2007 without uninstalling
Outlook 2003 before. It works faultless in the main but even though I
will go back to Outlook 2003. In my opinion, the new "features" in
Outlook 2007 are not worth to buy Outlook 2007. Also there are some
little annoying bugs (e. g. all of a sudden my rss-feeds are
disappearing so that I have to re-create them [or restore from a backup
I have made]). Also Outlook 2003 works much faster but I think its due
to my computer (PIII 800 MHz, 512 MB RAM) that is obviously too old for
Outlook 2007.
 
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