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Outlook is the ONLY office product that can not open it's files from a CD
(marked as read only). It must must first be copied back to a drive and the
r/o bit removed.
In this day and age, Outlook should have advanced in functionality from the
day it was created almost a DECADE ago!!! It should be reprogramed to act the
way every other product in the Office Suite behaves & ask if the user would
like to open the file as read only.
In the computing world of 2005 almost everyone backs up important
information to CD or DVD for archival purposes. Old mail should be able to be
offloaded from the desktop and accessed via CD, or from a locked backup on a
server. The "This is by design" answer outlined in article 178756 doesn't
acknowledge the fact that times and needs have changed from when Outlook was
developed... Program developers should update this segment of the code in
Outlook to allow this & simply warn the user it is happening, just as Excel
and Word do.
Microsoft customers NEED this functionality!
(marked as read only). It must must first be copied back to a drive and the
r/o bit removed.
In this day and age, Outlook should have advanced in functionality from the
day it was created almost a DECADE ago!!! It should be reprogramed to act the
way every other product in the Office Suite behaves & ask if the user would
like to open the file as read only.
In the computing world of 2005 almost everyone backs up important
information to CD or DVD for archival purposes. Old mail should be able to be
offloaded from the desktop and accessed via CD, or from a locked backup on a
server. The "This is by design" answer outlined in article 178756 doesn't
acknowledge the fact that times and needs have changed from when Outlook was
developed... Program developers should update this segment of the code in
Outlook to allow this & simply warn the user it is happening, just as Excel
and Word do.
Microsoft customers NEED this functionality!