I was using one of those cheapy organizers, you know #9.95 for the CD at
the business supply store, and liked it quite well. Then I got a
cel-phone with an organizer built in so I change over to Lotus Notes for
the very good reasons that the Lotus Office package came with my laptop
and the new cel-phones software package would sync with it. My current
phone does not have an organizer but I continued to use Lotus even
though it is overly complicated because I had a lot in it. Now I have a
pocket pc and it won't sync with Lotus Organizer so I switched to MS
Outlook which it will and tried to import the Organizer files. Won't do
it even thought it has a specific option to import Lotus Organizer 5.0
files. So I hand copied the current stuff over <SIGH!>. The whole
business is an annoying waste of money and time if you ask me.
Financial software is another similar annoyance. I have been using a
very old version of MS Money for years because it was cheap, simple, and
met my needs perfectly. Someone had given me a copy of Money 2003 but I
found it complicated and had all kinds of stuff in it I had no use for
so it set on the shelf in my bookcase. Then with the pocket pc I could
not sync the old version with pocket money which was a free download
from MS. So I upgraded to the 2003 version, still no go. So I did some
web research and found out that MS Money 2004 was the only version of
Money that would sync with the version of Pocket Money that will run on
Windows PPC 2003 which is the OS version on the Toshiba pocket pc which
can not be upgraded to a newer one. So I had to find an outdated version
of software that is no longer available retail to have the functionality
I wanted. In the end I downloaded a copy from one of the pirate sites
and had no qualms about it whatsoever. However I can say that MSM2004
had no problem importing my MSM95 files, thank god!
So, I wish you luck in your search, Shel. I have a feeling you are going
to need it. BTW if you have MS Office Professional it probably has MS
Outlook included.
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Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Another appointment calendar for my Win XP machine would be helpful. I
like the one I have, which is very small and very fast except that I have
to enter each appointment manually. Sometimes I'll have a schedule that
will require one or two visits a day to a client over a period lasting as
long as three weeks or a month. It gets tedious entering each scheduled
appointment so many times.
Any recommendations for an appointment book/calendar that will be easier to
use - something that will permit the entry of a start date and a finish
date, and which will then complete the schedule? Or some variation on that.
I need - and prefer not to have - bells and whistles like reminder chimes,
pop-ups, panting puppy dogs with wagging tails, etc.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Shel
