Comments on: 65 Reasons Why Outlook 2007 Will Suck

By: Rod Gibson

Rod Gibson — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:31:02 +0000

You forgot to mention the impossibility of editing contact fields in the useless business manager.

Again MS products too full of useless stuff that take pc resources and bloated as hell.

As the IT guy at my company, I’ve convinced about 90% of the staff to run Thunderbird. Great piece of software I’ve used for more than 5 years.

Unfortunately, there’s always the old farts that don’t like change and still stuck using MS Office crap. They are usually the ones who call me to sort out their mistakes and their outlook in-capabilities.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:45:41 +0000

My problem now is how to Prioritise the categories with outlook 2003 I had it set up so an item on my calendar would have the colour of the category highest on my list of categories.
I numbered my important categories 1 to 10 so they would be on top of the list and also items would display the colour assigned to these categories first.
With 2007 an Item displays the colour of the last category assigned. Which sometimes makes appointments with the same important category display in different colours. This sucks and I find myself assigning and un-assigning item categories so they end up the right colour. Very frustrating

By: z33k3r

z33k3r — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:18:03 +0000

I have been using 2007 for over two years now and haven’t had a single complaint. Everything has been very smooth and seem-less for me… The change of rendering engines didn’t sit well with me, but other than than, it’s been worth the 8hours at the trade show to get it for free… lol :)

By: Tony Scotto

Tony Scotto — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:55:25 +0000

Chris,

Many of the flaws that you point out combined show endemic design, development and quality control issues within MS and an overall show of apathy towards end users. MS made it’s way by working from the bottom up. In the beginning, no head of IT would suggest implementing Windows and Office. It was the overwhelming demand of the users that ultimately forced IT to implement Windows and office. What we are seeing now is an opening for the next MS like company to rise up and it’s probably time.

By: Unknown

Unknown — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:01:36 +0000

Outlook 07 is the worst I’ve ever seen. It is shocking how bad it is. Can’t reschedule a meeting from one time to another without MeetingPlace blowing up. What a piece.

By: Bouncehouse

Bouncehouse — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:25:47 +0000

I have not been able to send mail only receive it. This has been a big pain in the — because I love the functionality of saving and categorizing emails. But if I need to send an email, I have to go to Gmail.

By: jen

jen — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:43:43 +0000

I wish I would have read this article 2 years ago.

By: KEN LEBRUN

KEN LEBRUN — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:37:35 +0000

The program is a disaster in terms of reliability.
Microsoft makes it virtually impossible to find solution to problem without paying fees.
My latest disaster is that I am locked out of my delete file and I cannot delete records unless i open the individual record and delete while open.

Error Message: Cannot display the folder. Microsoft Office Outlook cannot access the specified folder location. The messaging interface has returned an unknown error. If the problem persists, restart Outlook. Outlook cannot open this item. The item may be damaged.

Microsoft has a monopoly, it is developing dysfunctional software, it is taking an arrogant approach to resolving the problems.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:08:18 +0000

Woah. I didn’t know THAT many people have such a problem with MS… I’m 12 now, and I seem to be getting along just fine. I use all the latest versions of Word, Powerpoint, Excel and Outlook, and I for one, love it. Its easy to use and understand (to me) and its not slow at all. I use a pretty fast computer, and I’m kinda computer savvy -_- but still. I might be pretty young, but any moron would see that anyone complaining is a WHINER. God, you’d think adults could be SMARTER and maybe less whiny, but most of you remind me of the little 5 year olds on my bus. Loads of these points aren’t *valid* and some are just so MINOR compared to the big changes we really need, or that have already been provided.

By: Joan

Joan — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:51:07 +0000

outlook constantly freezes does anyone know why this is happening?

By: RRRRRRR

RRRRRRR — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:39:01 +0000

Wow, Word Is Completely F****!!!!!!!! I Saved My Work And It Comes Up Saying That I Cannot Save And It Cannot Find The Temporary Files Either! What A Waste Of 24 Hours Working My A.S.S. Off :D

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By: Lucas

Lucas — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:47:54 +0000

I have the same issue as CHVT!!! When I start outlook 2007, after a while, letter C H V T dissapear… the only way to get them back is restarting outlook…
Anyone found a solution?

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:37:07 +0000

Time to update this, Chris.
“6500 Reasons why Outlook 2007 DOES suck”

* Add the ability to rename calendar tabs.
* Add the ability to remove the appointment handles.
* Make the arrow indicating an appointment further down the list a little more visible instead of hiding it next to a scroll bar arrow.
* Fix the printing to allow more flexibility in printing items.
* Fix the problem with printing tracking info on a separate sheet.
* 6495 More…

By: robert

robert — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:19:29 +0000

OMG, Office 2007 sucks A$$!! Hey, open an email in Outlook 2007, now try to find how to search through that email with the Find function….Hmmm… where is the find function? hey wait where are all of the things you could find via a menu in 2003? Looks like classic Mac designs, ah you can find the special icon that no one knows or you can press the secret 4 key sequence to get what you want, OR you can hire MS to give you 6 months of user interface training…ugh.. that will be only good until the next version of Office.

OMG, the Microsoft Designers are morons!!!

Oh, and you have to love how they have no clue about colors and highlighting in Vista too. Open a dialog box, ok, you see the text area is highlighted, so being a human you think “I can type now, because the focus is where the highlight is”…then you find wait a minute the highlight has nothing to do with where the focus is. OMG, someone should take the MS designers out back and shot them. I guess they have so much money up at MS that they are too busy smoking crack to think about user interface designs.