Outlook... sooooo close....

[ceagle]

Today I worked with a very recent version of MSoft's Outlook. I will say that the overall "Office" program is quite good now, and the setup went more easily than I've seen in years!

However, it still has some quirks they've overlooked... ;P

Microsoft are you listening?

As some of you may have done, you you know that importing a .CSV file generally means lining up the column maps from the source to the destination. So why did it take so long to import the Contacts?

Well, Outlook "says" that the column for Email is Email, but after you poke around a bit, you will discover that what they REALLY mean is E-Mail, and without the dash, the whole thing goes kablooie and you get an incomplete import. Oh by the way, where do you find Import? Why, under the Export button of course!

Soooooooo... there's still some eye-rolling face-palming idiocies they need to refine before it's smoother sailing.

Comments

[mondhasen.livejournal.com]

I’ve used Hotmail for eons and my biggest complaint about ‘contacts’ is that it doesn’t always find them when I am addressing an email. I can type one letter for some folks and a list of suggestions appears, but not everyone I might wish to send to is on the list. Like my brother- I can never find his addy unless I search keywords in remembered correspondences and then cut-and-paste. But I’m too lazy to do anything about this as long as searching works... :D

I expect more from my free services!

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

LOL yeah! :D
I wonder if that's just the way with a lot of webmail systems... That happens to me with GMail too... though it's very consistent... some pop up when needed and others don't, ... it's as if perhaps there is some listing-block setting where some specific names are never suggested, even though I write to both the suggested ones and non-suggested ones regularly.

With those not suggested instead of searching keywords, I tend to search through my index of emails to find a previous one sent or received, and copy/paste their email into the new one. Frustrating indeedy!