On 12/19/09 6:00 PM, "Diane Ross" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Office for Mac Next version due out in approx one year from now. What's on
> your wish list to be fixed or added?

Funny you should ask.  I just sent off a note to the Entourage feedback web
page.

My biggest gripe with Entourage is a simple one.  First, note that I use
Entourage with Preview Pane disabled.  I use double clicks or keyboard
commands to open messages.  I set up my message lists to sort by date
received, with oldest on top.  This seems more natural to me than newest on
top.  So the scrolling thumb in my message lists is usually at the last
received message, at the bottom of the scroll bar.  But if I quit and
restart Entourage, it goes back to the top of the scroll bar.  For my IMAP
accounts, the scroll bar position is lost even if I just click to a
different mailbox and then come back.

So here's my wish: when I select a mailbox, restore the selection state
(selected message) and scrollbar state when that mailbox was last viewed.
This should be trivial to code - I do it in my programs.  If new messages
were added since I last viewed the mailbox, then the position of the thumb
in the scrollbar may need to change to reflect the position of the selected
message relative to the new arrivals.  But I still think that the
last-viewed message should be selected, and visible in the list (table
view).

If the Preview Pane is visible, Entourage does a slightly better job of
saving message selection and scrollbar states.  It still loses state in some
situations.  But I don't use Preview Pane.

-- 
Julian Vrieslander <[email protected]>


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