Diane,
Not to be disrepectful, but I'm guessing you should be able to read Milly
Staples response if I, and everyone else reading this forum can see her
response. Milly's response is rather short sighted. This new Calendar
Overlay mode should not preclude the previous OPTION to compress weekend
days. Instead, overlay should just expand the compressed weekend days when
overlay is invoked (if one of the calendars included in overlay does not have
compressed weekends) and then the calendar view should revert to their
previous view when overlay mode is cancelled. This is just a matter of
Microsoft development once again making poor choices on behalf of the users.
This post is proof that there are a number of us that made use of the
compressed weekend option.
I personally have been using Windows and Microsoft application since 1987
and have seen many, many impressive improvements and many, many
unintelligible feature modifications and omissions. I therefore avoided
Vista and Office 2007 like the PLAGUE because of feature modification,
omissions and the "wonder" ribbon that can't be "unraveled". Once again,
shame on Microsoft for taking away the "good" instead of improving it.
Office 2003 was a shining example of how talented Microsoft can be when they
choose to make meaningful improvements. I've used Word, Excel, and
PowerPoint from "Day 1" and Office 2003 really made those applications
extremely intuitive and useful. Office 2007 - NOT. Milly's flip remark
about reverting to Office 2003 does not apply, many of us have no choice to
go backward based on dictates of our businesses and decision by the IT
department to remain up to date on applications.
Hopefully, those of you employed by Microsoft, that haven't "drank the
kool-aid" yet can appreciate the value of what is being communicated here and
realize that by making intuitive, comprehensive and inclusive improvements
will sell more product just by virtue of wider acceptance. I would have
purchased Office 2007 when it was first available if I hadn't heard the
"horror" stories and now, two years later, I'm in a position where I've been
forced to use the product and I'm experiencing the "horror".
"Diane Poremsky [MVP]" wrote:
Unfortunately compressed weekends and the 2 column week view are unlikely to
be returned to future versions of outlook - they just don’t work with the
overlays. The method at
http://www.slipstick.com/Tutorials/2wk_cal/2wk_cal.htm is a good workaround
for many people.
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"Amanda in WNC" Amanda in wrote in message
...
"Why not just disable weekend days in the work week so that you can toggle
between the work week and full week views?"
I assume it is for the same reason I have for not likely the loss of this
feature. Because I still need to see Sat/Sun, but have far fewer
appointments
on those days. Thus, they do not require a whole cell. The majority of my
appointments are during the normal work week, so the larger those cells
are,
the better!
Does that make sense?
"Brian Tillman" wrote:
Alain wrote:
Milly Staples : this sounds kind of arrogant. Whay Trippio is
asking for is the POSSIBILITY to compress weekend days in one box,
not to make it compulsory for eveyone. If YOU are happy with 1 day
per box, then it does not mean everyone is.
The problem is, Milly doesn't work for Microsoft. You may or may not be
happy with Microsoft's choice of no linger compressing weekends, but it's
a
fact you must deal with now. Because Outlook 2007 allows calendar
overlays,
compressed weekends are no longer possible. Why not just disable weekend
days in the work week so that you can toggle between the work week and
full
week views?
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]