Many problems - Upgrade seems to do LESS

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I am having huge problems doing my work in Outlook , having moved over from Outlook Express
I can no longer do the following
1) view attached pictures in the reading pane. (usually apeared underneath the text in an email
2) right click on an email address in the body of the email (such as when they filled in a form to send me their email address for the newsletter), to add to contact list. For that matter, cannot right click on any email address even on a website, to add to address book
3) click on any url in an email that has not been sent yet (still under construction) - they are not "live" [i save many urls in emails and file them, but now cannot go back and click on the links

If there is no way to acheive these objectives through Outlook, I would have to say it is not worth changing over and upgrading! I cannot do my job withou these capabilities

Any help would be much appreciated - THANKYO
Laurey-An
 
If all of these thiings are essential to you doing your job, then stick with
OE. BTW Outlook is not an upgrade from OE, it is an entirely separate
program with a different target audience and needs in mind.

1. Outlook does not display pictures inline as in OE - the sender controls
waht the recipient sees. If the sender embeds the file or inserts it inline
using RTF or HTML, the recipient will see the picture inline.

2. In Outlook, right click on the address of the open message to add to
contacts (no address book in Outlook).

3..Outlook constructs mail in edit mode and the links are not live until
saved or sent.


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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer:
Laurey <[email protected]> asked:
| I am having huge problems doing my work in Outlook , having moved
| over from Outlook Express.
| I can no longer do the following:
| 1) view attached pictures in the reading pane. (usually apeared
| underneath the text in an email) 2) right click on an email address
| in the body of the email (such as when they filled in a form to send
| me their email address for the newsletter), to add to contact list.
| For that matter, cannot right click on any email address even on a
| website, to add to address book. 3) click on any url in an email that
| has not been sent yet (still under construction) - they are not
| "live" [i save many urls in emails and file them, but now cannot go
| back and click on the links]
|
| If there is no way to acheive these objectives through Outlook, I
| would have to say it is not worth changing over and upgrading! I
| cannot do my job withou these capabilities!
|
| Any help would be much appreciated - THANKYOU
| Laurey-Ann
 
Thank you for taking the trouble to answer me!

In 3) when you say until it is SAVED - are you saying it is live once saved into Drafts mode, or do you mean once you have SAVED AS to somewhere on a drive?

I am surprised to hear you say that Outlook is not a bigger better version of OE? The reason I change dover finally after years, was because I was advised many times that OE was a MINI Outlook and the "bugs" or instablilities and insecurities in OE were not present in Outlook. Thus I expected Outlook to do at least the same as OE, and then some. Instead, it appears to have removed some of the capabilities! Like right-clicking on an email address (not a sender).
So if I eventually decide to go back (the thought gives me cold shivers as this transition has lost me scores of man-hours!) to OE, is this at all possible? To transfer all emails and folders and identities and addressbooks to OE????

Again, thank you for your time...
LA
 
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