When is an upgrade actually a downgrade!!!

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Paul Lemonidis

OWA, and hence I assume Outlook 2003, seems to have a
major problem with selecting messages. In Outlook 97\98
\2000 and 2002 you could open a folder and select ALL the
messages in it and then delete or whatever needed to be
done with them. You simply held down the shift or control
key and off you go. Problem with 2003 is that if the total
number of messages exceeds more than will fit in one
screen you cannot do that any more!!!!! As soon as you go
to the next screen thre original marker is lost hence you
can never select more then one screenful at a time.

Great Stuff!!!! I have an inbox with 3000 messages and no
option but to delete them 25 at a time! Even the poxy
search option has this stupid limitation!!! Thinking about
it even the Exchange and MS mail clients were better than
that!!!! If that is the best Outlook 2003 can manage I
wouldn't downgrade my worst enemy to it!! Unfortunately I
do not have access to Outlook 2003 to confirm this
scenario as I am using OWA against an Exchange 2003 server
but the interface seems identical from what little I have
seen of Outlook 2003. Could someone with access to Outlook
2003 confirm my suspicion one way or the other please.

If I am mistaken please feel free to enlighten me. If not
rest assured I will not be downgrading anyone to it!

Regards,

Paul Lemonidis.
 
OWA 2003 has nothing to do with Outlook 2003. It's an HTML app that
just looks similar to Outlook 2003.

You can select everything the way you want. BTW, if you do want to
select everything in a folder the easiest way is to use Edit, Select
All.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Lead Author, Professional Outlook 2000 Programming, Wrox Press
Lead Author, Beginning VB 6 Application Development, Wrox Press
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Hi Ken

Thanks for your reply. OK. Aplogies. I stand corrected and
will reserve judgement unitl I have Outlook 2003 to test.

Only problem with OWA is that Edit, Select All isn't an
option.I assume from what you say that the Outlook 2003
interface will give me that option?

Regards,

Paul Lemonidis.

-----Original Message-----
OWA 2003 has nothing to do with Outlook 2003. It's an HTML app that
just looks similar to Outlook 2003.

You can select everything the way you want. BTW, if you do want to
select everything in a folder the easiest way is to use Edit, Select
All.

--
Ken Slovak
[MVP - Outlook]
http://www.slovaktech.com
Lead Author, Professional Outlook 2000 Programming, Wrox Press
Lead Author, Beginning VB 6 Application Development, Wrox Press
Attachment Options
http://www.slovaktech.com/attachmentoptions.htm
Extended Reminders
http://www.slovaktech.com/extendedreminders.htm


OWA, and hence I assume Outlook 2003, seems to have a
major problem with selecting messages. In Outlook 97\98
\2000 and 2002 you could open a folder and select ALL the
messages in it and then delete or whatever needed to be
done with them. You simply held down the shift or control
key and off you go. Problem with 2003 is that if the total
number of messages exceeds more than will fit in one
screen you cannot do that any more!!!!! As soon as you go
to the next screen thre original marker is lost hence you
can never select more then one screenful at a time.

Great Stuff!!!! I have an inbox with 3000 messages and no
option but to delete them 25 at a time! Even the poxy
search option has this stupid limitation!!! Thinking about
it even the Exchange and MS mail clients were better than
that!!!! If that is the best Outlook 2003 can manage I
wouldn't downgrade my worst enemy to it!! Unfortunately I
do not have access to Outlook 2003 to confirm this
scenario as I am using OWA against an Exchange 2003 server
but the interface seems identical from what little I have
seen of Outlook 2003. Could someone with access to Outlook
2003 confirm my suspicion one way or the other please.

If I am mistaken please feel free to enlighten me. If not
rest assured I will not be downgrading anyone to it!

Regards,

Paul Lemonidis.
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