Outlook 2007 and Office 2007 in general has annoyed me ever since it was pushed to my computer. First came the change in the interface. And not just a small change, but a radical departure from, well, pretty much every other Windows application on the planet. My Alt-I F to insert a file became Alt-N A F. Then I have to dig around for the Word Count thing. Not to mention the really annoying blinking dot that wouldn’t go away until you hesitantly clicked on it, hoping it wouldn’t blow anything up like it appeared it would. Then Outlook – it won’t permanently remove the Sort by Message Header column. It reappears every time I go out of then back into the Inbox. Apparently a known problem – not a “bug”, of course. And worse: my Category column is text when the Header column is there, color when it isn’t. Yargh. Since my Flag column disappeared altogether and I had to redo the rules so that my Category would match my Flag… And yes, I know I can switch off of cached mode – but then Zombie messages started showing up – mysterious new unread deleted messages and something in my Outbox that I never put there (it wasn’t even FROM me…) So I live with these annoyances, lose productivity, and am generally less than delighted. I want things to get better – as defined by me. No, I don’t need to go into a DOS command line and type in the Edit app, but I don’t want my old experiences broken, either. Or new problems to show up. Things that will DELIGHT a user will get lost in all of those little things that used to work… but are now broken. It’s fun to put something brand new out there. It’s hard to innovate on a version 12. I get that. Unfortunately, I also have to live, and work, and struggle with it every day, too.
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I posted to intuitlabs.com
Note to self: It’s the little things
http://intuitlabs.com/blog/archive/2009/10/note-to-self-its-the-little-things/
October 23 2009, 2:28pm | Comments »
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