Arend
Fri Sep 05 02:50:00 PDT 2008
If you had the option to create 25 colored flags, you could use five of them
to set up the functionality of today â?? tomorrow etc. By this you would have
another 20 to assign different attributes to a message.
The colored categories are very useful but their task is to have your emails
organized. This is why you can have in one message more than one color
category assigned.
I have never done project management but even if I had, I would never reply
to an email 1 week after receipt. A message shouldnâ??t be confused with a
task.
Regards,
Christos
"Ben M. Schorr - MVP (OneNote)" wrote:
> The new follow-up flags are, in my opinion, MORE useful than the old
> ones. I like being able to schedule e-mail to be handled at future
> dates - I daresay that anybody who thinks there is "only today" has
> never done any project management.
>
> If you want multi-colored flags the categories offer you far more colors
> than the old follow-up flags ever did and the importance settings are
> unchanged. You can even create custom importance settings (using
> categories) if you really want to.
>
> Best wishes and aloha,
>
> --
> -Ben-
> Ben M. Schorr, MVP
> Roland Schorr & Tower
>
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>
>
> "Arend" <Arend@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E642FFC4-52A9-4D93-BC3E-C02B8AC70DF4@microsoft.com:
>
> > I would like to meet the guy in Microsoft who destroyed the colored flags in
> > the new version of outlook. I wonder what did he have in his mind and who on
> > earth will ever find the new function useful? Email to do tomorrow? Or next
> > week? Or the week after??? When you use email for business there is no
> > tomorrow. It is only today wise guys. It is importance and priority the
> > factor which decides which email should be answered first. And even if I am
> > wrong and this new function is useful ALL FLAGS HAVE ALMOST THE SAME COLOR.
> > Obviously this developer genius has never seen the rainbow.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Arend
> >
> >
> > "Gemini" wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Arend, for several reasons, I've also chosen not to move to Office 2007 and
> > > shell out the $$$s MS wants, the Ribbon being one of the major reasons. I've
> > > reverted to Office 2003. Since Bill Gates has publicly stated that in the
> > > future, MS plans to use the Fluent UI (i.e. the Ribbon thing) more
> > > extensively in MS products, I've also started looking into transitioning
> > > completely to OpenOffice or Zoho.
> > >
> > > If I were you, I wouldn't worry too much about Gordon and his responses.
> > > He's a big Office 2007 fan. Based on prior experience, he is apparently
> > > unable to comprehend the fact that quite a few users aren't exactly overawed
> > > by the infamous Ribbon.
> > >
> > > hth!
> > >
> > > -- Gemini
> > >
> > >
> > > "Arend" wrote:
> > >
> >
> > > > For the same reason that one uses macros in word: to execute several tasks
> > > > with one key hit when composing a document, which in outlook is the reply or
> > > > forward of an incoming message.
> > > >
> > > > But don't you think that the reason that there are 2 different dotm, one for
> > > > word and one for email, is already enough to never buy Office 2007? Not to
> > > > mention the fact that you can't customize the ribbon neither you can assign
> > > > keyboard shortcuts to the outlook editor.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Christos
> > > >
> >
> > >
>
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