On 7/15/02 3:17 PM, "Beth Rosengard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 7/15/02 2:54 PM, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> What do you mean by that, Beth? What do you mean by "under Calendar Events"? > > When I clicked on Calendar it opened in Month view. Above and to the left > side of the calendar is a white square with two icons in it: One says > Calendar Events and the other says Tasks. Next to the Calendar Events icon > is an arrow. When I click on it, it opens to show the "Entourage conduit > released" event but not the "MacWorld - nifty cool stuff" event, yet both > events are entered in the monthly Calendar view. > > Remember, I'm in Entourage 2001 and note that I almost never open the > Calendar (I'm another throwback who prefers a paper one) so all settings > should be defaults. Would you like a screen shot of this too? Let's face it. The whole Calendar thing was not really quite ready for release in Entourage 2001. Too many things not quite working right. If you don't use the Calendar much you'll be running into some of that for the first time now. Not having the option to turn off the "Tentatively Accepts" default for invitations is not good - they fixed that in X. That little window (as I forewarned you, I though you might mean that but I couldn't remember if that's what it was called - you remind me it's a subheading) was poorly thought through. Much of what it displays is redundant since it's already in the Calendar view. Also people were very upset that only one day's tasks showed up in the tasks subheading. So they got rid of that "Today" pane in X and replaced it - in Week and Day Calendar Views only - with a much better Tasks pane that displays all incomplete tasks. So now people just look in the Calendar for the day's Calendar Events - it's very easy to switch to Day View or week view to see just today's - no need for the separate panel. And in the Calendar - as you say - the invitations do show up. So there are no gaps in X. Basically, there's just a lot of things that didn't work right for Calendar in 2001 that work much better in X. The Calendar is undoubtedly the most improved sector in X. One more reason for upgrading if you used the calendar. I think that the calendar - and invitations too - is something that will be a significant component of the attraction of Entourage and Office X generally - mostly for businesses of course. People who need just email and address book won't get Office for those: the improved Apple Mail and Address Book in Jaguar will mean that many users will buy Office principally for Word and Excel, if they need them. Apple Mail and Address Book will be nowhere near as good as Entourage but they will be good enough for many users. But the Entourage X Calendar is something else, and the way invitations work seamlessly with both the email and and calendar functions is unique on the Mac. In time, I expect that it will be the reason for a very significant proportion of adoptions of Office v. X, as it is of Outlook on Windows. In a business, to be able to coordinate everything for one and many users will be a terrific boon. For us ordinary single users who don't need all that and don't want automatic tentative acceptance of invitations, it can just be turned off. Perhaps a dialog popping up the first time would be a good idea - why not? Some people object to all the dialogs, of course. Invitations _are_ described in the Help, so the documentation is there. Eventually we'll be accustomed to invitations, I should think. And to declining them. -- Paul Berkowitz -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
