Office/Outlook 2003 is harder to find the features than Office 20.

[JCR_User_Pittsburgh_PA]

I think the MS software engineers are trying too hard to think for the
typical user. The new features in Office 2003 are nice, but many of them
end up doing things automatically to my emails that I do NOT want to do!
That happens so often that the little irritations all add up to a lot of
FRUSTRATION for me. And those problems are caused by MS engineers trying to
"over-think" for me! K.I.S.S.= Keep It Simple, Stupid! I like Office 2000
better. FYI.

 

[krishnakanth]

can you elaborate more what problems are causing problems for you ?
i think microsoft has done major changes to outlook 2003 then outloo
2000 and like the newer version with more changes an end user woul
expect :

 

[Cgregoli]

JCR:

I agree totally. It's not just Outlook that has this problem, Word and
Excel have it too. I've been using the Office products for over 10 years,
and have recently upgraded to 2003. Yesterday it took me 15 minutes to do
what should have been a 2 minute edit to a previously prepared letter because
Word kept trying to reformat what I typed! The annoying little format
buttons that pop in just drive me crazy. MS should have added a tab to the
Options pane that has check boxes for all the little so-called "helpful"
features so that users can turn them off as needed. I think MS forgot the
experienced users in trying to make the Office suite more "friendly" to new
users, and so do my firends that are word processors by profession. And
having to turn off the balloons by editing the registry is a bit much!!! I
agree - K.I.S.S.!!! C'mon MS, we're not all just using the Office suite for
the first time, and we don't need to know that a document has been sent to a
printer when the printer is at our elbow.

 

[garfield-n-odie]

Maybe you're not as experienced with Office as you think. Maybe
you should spend less time resting on your laurels, and use that
time to learn to use the software. There IS a tab in the Options
pane with check boxes for most of the automatic formatting
features. It normally isn't necessary to edit the registry to
turn off balloons, but you can do it that way if you want to.
And you can also turn off print notifications from a menu without
editing the registry. RTFM, or ask an experienced Office user
(you'll likely get a better answer if you leave out the Op-Ed).