On or near 11/26/01 10:04 PM, Chuq Von Rospach at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:
> Been loading up and converting to Office for MacOS X. Got a few initial > comments. > Just a couple of comments on two or three points: > > On one of the systems I converted, Entourage for X refused to import from my > Office 2001 data. It kept failing with an error -60. I resolved this, FWIW, > by firing up Office 2001 Entourage with the option key, and having it > rebuild the database, so there was evidently some corruption. It might be > nice if this was technoted or otherwise hinted to users, since I'll bet > people will find the import having issues even if their Entourage wasn't > overtly having problems with the database. > I'd advise <everyone> importing from 2001 to rebuild that database first. > It seems like there aren't many new features -- but moving to X and updating > the look and feel is enough, plus it's clear there are a lot of "under the > hood" improvements. I'd like to suggest a few things for future > consideration, though: > One HUGE under the hood improvement is the search speed for Advanced Find, even when searching the entire text of messages. Searches on subject <fly>! About mailing list sorting: Sorting by multiple fields is, I think, high on everyone's list of desired enhancements. > I was somewhat disappointed when I narrowed the left-side (with the six > buttons and the folder area) and the six buttons didn't re-arrange > themselves into 3 rows of 2 instead of 2 rows of three to fit. > Try using the preference "display small navigation buttons" in general preferences. > I'd like to make the "mail views" folder go away, since at this point, I > don't plan on using it (on the other hand, I haven't experimented heavily > with it much, either, but it doesn't fit my style of mail handling at this > point, and I prefer to make "stuff I don't use" to go away and stop > cluttering my interface. Ditto those six buttons, of course. I'm not > requesting the "any way you want, anywhere you put it" that Word has done, > but I do think that being able to make stuff invisible and recover screen > real-estate is a good thing.... > No way I know of now. I think the general appearance of the folder pane is much improved over 2001, though; the custom views being sorted out to what type of object you are currently viewing (mail, tasks, calendar) is cool. I think you will find lots of uses for those mail views though. Unread Messages is very useful, especially if you customize it further. I have one for mailing list mail only, one for work mail, one for personal. All those exclude newsgroup messages, which are on a separate unread view. Remember, you can save any Advanced Find as a custom view. How about "sender is me" and "date sent" is less than 1 day, for messages I sent out in the last 24 hours? And, as you'll see, you can at least minimize those six buttons. Have you tried click and hold on the Mail button? Up pops a list of folders with unread mail! -- Add me to Palm/Visor: http://signature.coola.com/?[EMAIL PROTECTED] Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> XNS name: =Allen Watson Applescripts for Outlook Express and Entourage: <http://homepage.mac.com/allenwatson/> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To search the archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
