Before I begin, I just wanted to say that I (along with other members of the team) are reading this thread. I can't yet comment on what's coming in Outlook, other than what we've already announced, but I will say that at least some of your requests will be fulfilled. :) As we get closer to next year's release, you'll see more details coming from me and the rest of the team about it. I'm sure that Diane and others here will talk about it when we start announcing more details, but you can also follow our team blog at <http://www.officeformac.com/blog/> and my blog at <http://blogs.msdn.com/nadyne/> on the off-chance that they take more than a couple of milliseconds to see a post there and mention it here. :)
For those of you who happen to be in San Francisco Bay Area, my usability team is conducting several usability studies about our new UI. We'll get back into the thick of it in early January. Outlook is updating to Cocoa, which means we get to touch every pixel on the screen, and so there's a lot of work for my user experience team to do. :) If you're in the area and interested in participating in a study (and thus seeing what the new UI might look like!), then you can sign up to participate here: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/usability.mspx Now, to answer some questions ... On 12/20/09 9:38 AM, "Lorene Romero" <[email protected]> wrote: > Will there be an upgrade for Entourage? Or is this question regarding > the other parts of Office? The next version of Office:Mac will replace Entourage with Outlook. If you're currently using Entourage, you'll be able to move your existing data into Outlook. > My wishes for Entourage is to have something inplace that will allow > for Out Of Office Replies. This isn't really something that we can provide.Y ou see, out-of-office replies are something that happens on the server, not in your mail application. You tell the server "I'm on holiday!", and the server sends out your out-of-office replies -- your mail client doesn't do anything at all to send those. So your server needs to provide this functionality. If you're on Exchange 2003 or later, you've got this available to you in Entourage 2008 or Entourage for Web Services. If you're on plain ole POP or IMAP (say, Gmail or Hotmail), then we don't really have a way to do this. Some mail servers do provide this kind of functionality to their users, but only via the web interface. For example, I know that Hotmail lets you do this, with instructions here: http://help.live.com/help.aspx?project=mailfull&market=en-us&querytype=topic &query=wl_mail_proc_oof.htm I wrote some more about this a few months ago on my blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/nadyne/archive/2009/08/20/q-a-how-do-i-set-up-an-out-o f-office-message-in-entourage.aspx > Also an auto backup built in One of the features that we have announced for Outlook is that we'll support Time Machine backups. Will this meet your needs, or are you looking for something else? On 12/22/09 5:38 AM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > My Office for Mac wish list is: > - ability to manage multiple data files like in the windows version. My > identity is over 8GB in less than a year. Can you tell me more about what you mean here? Are you talking about archiving Outlook PSTs? > - General file format compatibility between the office applications in Mac > and Windows need to be improved to the same level. Excel Macro's are a big > problem at the moment. Also, powerpoint is lacking some features like > creating/editing organizational charts Well, this isn't about Entourage/Outlook, but I'll answer anyway. :) We announced last year that VBA macros are returning to Excel (and the rest of the suite) in the next version of Office. So you're covered there. PowerPoint can still create and edit org charts. If you have an existing org chart, then you can simply double-click on it to edit it. To create a new org chart, you have two options: 1. Do so via SmartArt. Hierarchy charts are usually the best for this. 2. Go to Insert -> Object and select "Microsoft Organization Chart". This will open up the Organization Chart helper app that you're probably familiar with if you're talking about org charts. :) Regards, Nadyne. Nadyne Richmond | user experience researcher Microsoft Corporation | Macintosh Business Unit http://blogs.msdn.com/nadyne/ -- YouTalk mailing list List address: [email protected] List information: http://entourage.mvps.org/support_options/list.html List moderator: [email protected], [email protected] To unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
