Can anyone think of reasons I should or should not move up to the latest
version? I am NOT in a corporate environment, so the issues surrounding
Entourage's Exchange Server connectivity are not relevant to me.
Reasons to upgrade to Entourage 2004
Sometimes the best answers come from a user. Here is what some users on the
Entourage talk list and newsgroup had to say.
1. If you are viewing the message list in groups and start clicking
the trash icon or start hitting delete to move messages to the deleted items
folder, the process stops working when you reach the top of the group. This
is great, because you might have been keeping certain older messages for
reference that you do not wish to delete, and this helps avoid accidentally
removing them.
2. On my old iMac, Help is incredibly faster. Now it¹s really
useful.
3. On my old iMac, deleting messages is about 40% faster.
4. The new conduit is indeed a lot faster than the old one for
someone like me, with very large date- and address-books, it¹s especially
helpful.
5. I was adding an address to my Entourage address book today, one
for which I had no ZIP code. So, after adding the record, I opened it to its
Summary tab, clicked on the little menu icon next to the address, and
selected "Show on map". When the map appeared in my browser, the ZIP code
was listed along with the address at the top. Evidently the map lookup
locates the ZIP code. All I had to do was switch back to Entourage and type
it into the appropriate field.
6. After playing around with things a bit more, I can achieve the
functionality I want by printing calendars without any tasks, then printing
the tasks in memo style next. There has been a significant enhancement to
the printing of tasks memo style, as you certainly know. This makes it much
more useful. You really DID hit a home run with print ³Current Task List².
7. The new Junk Mail Filter does a better job than Mail or
SpamCatcher.
8. I have found that my primary IMAP problem, that of messages
being renamed in the inbox, has indeed gone away. In fact, the IMAP
experience is greatly improved and appears stable even under a heavy load.
9. The Project Center is wonderful. It really functions as a full
case management system. The linking to project files is seamless and after
several years of looking for a calendar/contact/project management system
that never really worked, this has been terrific. For any of you who are
using the time management system of David Allen,'Getting Things Done",
Entourage fits the bill. Thanks to those of you at the Mac BU for putting
the time and thought into this.
Hope this helps....
