Improve Your Outlook

re: Improve Your Outlook

Dennis — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 18:18:25 GMT

So you got a Melissa working on the Outlook team?

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linkified — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 20:00:02 GMT

re: Improve Your Outlook

Andy C — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 20:16:01 GMT

"Outlook, has a ton of new features in addition to being the single biggest consumer of the new Office 12 UI"

Seems an odd comment, given that Outlook is the one part of Office 12 that doesn't seem to have changed UI substantially (e.g. no Ribbon) - I'll admit the new calendar looks funky though!

re: Improve Your Outlook

Kawigi — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 21:57:05 GMT

I thought that was an odd statement, too, but it's not quite accurate to say that Outlook doesn't have the ribbon - it does have the ribbon on some windows (like "the new canvas for composing and reading messages that works like Word")

re: Improve Your Outlook

Doug — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 02:17:59 GMT

"you can find other Office blogs written by members of the product team by looking in the "Microsoft Office Blogs" category over in right column of this page."
Unfortunately, unlike you (and some of the Outlook bloggers you mention, others of your colleagues haven't quite got the idea of posting regularly. Word may have more users than any other component, but there's hardly anything Joe's blog can find to say about it!

re: Improve Your Outlook

Dave — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:20:27 GMT

It would be really good to learn something about the improvements to Word - apart from the UI changes, but the blog appears to have stalled.

Can you apply a little internal pressure?

re: Improve Your Outlook

KirkMorrant — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 08:32:44 GMT

Just regarding the previous few comments, I think we've been spoiled by Jensen.

I don't think it would be too presumptuous of me to say thank you to Jensen on behalf of all regular readers of this blog. It is a very interesting and often entertaining pastime to check in every day to see a new posting.

re: Improve Your Outlook

Kent Pribbernow — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 04:00:51 GMT

So Outlook will utilize the "Ribbon" just as other OFFICE apps will? That's good to hear, but I'm surprised why none of the screenshots I've seen (of Outlook 12) show a ribbon in the UI at all. In fact, based on what I've seen, Outlook 12 doesn't really look much different than the current release.

re: Improve Your Outlook

jensenh — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 06:14:00 GMT

Kent,

Outlook is a hyrbid app in Office 12, which explains the confusion. The shell is still menus and toolbars-based, while all of the places you actually read and author content (mail, calendar, contacts, tasks, etc.) are Ribbon-based.

You can find more explanation about this in the FAQ section under "Which programs get the Ribbon?"

re: Improve Your Outlook

ltshaw711 — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 04:27:24 GMT

Outlook came late to Office and you can still tell with Office 12. It gets some of the UI in certain places, but not others. Too bad. At this point you should not be able to tell that Outlook was a "purchased" product. But then again, you can still see that the Outlook Calendar was the old Network Scheduler calendar product, many years after the technology was acquired by MSFT. Maybe in O12 we will (finally) get a spell checker and same word processing UI in the calendar as the e-mail part. Here's hoping!

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