[Info-vax] Writer advice requested

[John Wallace]

On Nov 11, 7:50 pm, AEF <spamsink2... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Nov 11, 1:16 pm, koeh... at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob
>
> Koehler) wrote:
> > In article <ZdednauJXM05uEHRnZ2dnUVZ_o2dn... at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net> writes:
>
> > > Save Outhouse for customers who require it.
>
> >    Why else would I be using it?
>
> It does some nice things Mac Mail doesn't do. You can flag an open
> email (message) with a keyboard shortcut and it shows up on the email.
> You don't have to go to the list of email messages (viewer window) and
> find it in the big list or open the right menu to see if it took, or
> if it was already flagged! You can have multiple colored flags, and
> change the color without the mouse! The follow-up flags can easily be
> set to a future time to come up as a pop-up reminder, using just the
> keyboard. Different follow-up types (aside from colors) are
> available.
>
> Outlook tells you right at the top of the email if you've ever
> forwarded or replied to it. I like that.
>
> Page Up and Page Down move the highlight bar in the email list and the
> cursor in actual emails. Not so in Mac Mail and almost all other Mac
> stuff (Dictionary is an exception).
>
> Outlook (like at least some other Office apps [I haven't tried them
> all] and Windows itself) has keyboard shortcuts for more than 99% of
> what you can do with the mouse.
>
> There are probably others highlights. But don't get me wrong, there's
> plenty of things I hate about Outlook! Instability and fixed-size
> rules and alerts dialog box are at the top of my Outlook pet-peeve
> list.
>
> AEF

"Outlook tells you right at the top of the email if you've ever
forwarded or replied to it. I like that."

Does it? Really? Have you checked in detail?

Outlook versions I'm familiar with have for years had a silliness (aka
bug) where all the flag actually tells you is whether Outlook ever
saved a draft of a forward or a reply. The flag doesn't reflect
whether you actually sent the message; Outlook lies. This applies to
Outlook 2002 at home under Windows XP with simple POP/SMTP support and
a very different corporate Outlook at work with the more usual
Exchange support; same lies on both.