User Experience Changes in Outlook 2010 [FTW] | Posted at 8:11 AM
I wanted to make a list of changes that I really appreciate from a usability perspective. Thank you Outlook team!
- Reordering Accounts: You can finally reorder your left pane accounts any way you want; now my archive folder is properly at the bottom and my accounts are ordered by importance.
- Auto-detect Outgoing Mail Account to Use: It used to be in 2007 that when you composed a new mail, it defaulted to using your main email account. Now, however, it properly detects what account the current folder you're viewing is associated with and uses that. YES. Now my hack of an addin is no longer needed!
I will keep this list updated as I discover new features.
Comments
The feature that I'd like to see in Outlook (I have 2007) is to tag emails or to be able to place comments that we can search on.
Posted by: Michael
On July 25, 2010 6:43 PM
your concerns are very logical. I really liked it and yea, i like your profile picture as well :P
Posted by: website design montreal
On July 30, 2010 4:05 PM
Outlook is a pain in the butt... why in this day and age are messages still being stored on a computers hard drive? Mozilla Thunderbird is the good stuff.
Posted by: Seattle Web Designer
On August 12, 2010 11:58 PM
Did you know that you can use Microsoft Outlook to make emails in advance and have them go out automatically hours, days, weeks, months or even years later?
Posted by: Erase Hard Drive
On September 1, 2010 4:54 AM
I'm wish they had a feature on Outlook2010 that hid emails with certain keywords in them so that only the owner of the pc can read them.
Posted by: Steroids UK
On September 1, 2010 10:05 AM
Thanks for your post, I still am using outlook 2007 but thanks to the changes I've indicated I'm going to switch to Outlook 2010
Posted by: Juan - Camaras Espias
On September 16, 2010 2:30 PM
your concerns are very logical. I really liked it and yea, i like your profile picture as well :P
Posted by: Entrepreneur Opportunity
On September 28, 2010 10:02 AM
The feature that I'd like to see in Outlook (I have 2007) is to tag emails or to be able to place comments that we can search on.
Posted by: Retirement Wishes
On September 28, 2010 10:03 AM
Thanks for sharing this useful information. But I am still using outlook 2007. I really want to switch to use outlook 2010 later.
Posted by: chris
On October 16, 2010 4:09 AM
Can anyone please tell me if Outlook 2010 can be used with Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007
Posted by: Laurence New
On November 10, 2010 6:39 AM
While it seems like Outlook is improving things, I still prefer to use Thunderbird from Mozilla.
Posted by: Columbus Ohio Web Design Guy
On November 14, 2010 12:26 PM
hey Kamran, have you used Zimbra? I just downloaded it a couple of days back and Im impressed. From a usability perspective, I find it way better than outlook. Still playing with it to see if it can take emails from your domain accounts.
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On November 28, 2010 9:38 AM
Speaking of Zimbra.. I know people who are customer supports of Zimbra here.. some of them are my friends.
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Posted by: Small Business Loan Guy
On December 29, 2010 4:37 PM
I would like to see Outlook PST files compacted a little. They seem to be getting more and more difficult to backup and restore as Outlook grows!
Posted by: Hard Drive Recovery
On February 27, 2011 12:13 PM
Microsoft Outlook aotomated feature is really cool, not everyone seems to know about it though!
Posted by: Alan
On September 11, 2011 6:46 PM
Agrees that making backups of .pst for migration of emails on a reimaged machine is getting out of hand. even when I delete all the extraneous stuff I think I'll never reference again I still have a huge PST..
Posted by: Brie
On March 14, 2012 9:30 PM
I agree totally, the PST files are getting out of control to backup, they should be compacted down and be easier to restore.
Posted by: Michael Anders
On April 5, 2012 10:12 AM
Im still using outlook 200k too. for me it till good but i'll change to 2010 soon.
Posted by: Thiết kế web
On April 16, 2012 9:05 PM
I still prefer using MS Office outlook 2007, it works flawlessly with me.
Posted by: Naperville Web Design
On June 8, 2012 11:17 PM