On Wed, 08 Feb 2006 11:41:02 -0800, jonfklein wrote:

Ok, inferior or not inferior, poorly written or not. I can't prove any of
these statements in the amount of time I want to discuss this so I will
take them back. But my general impression is that non-Microsoft software
is more user-friendly. Perhaps I should have said I am simply dissapointed
with the usability of Outlook tasks and I think there is a lot of room for
imporvement.

1) Yes I am using Group By. The main problem I have with this is that
Outlook always shows all categories and orders them in ascending or
descending alphabetical order. So if you have several groups you still
have to sort through all the groups, to find the one you want which may be
several screens down. There is no easy way, that I have found so far, to
view only one specific group on the screen at once.

Ok, I haven't looked at using the search folder yet. Perhaps I can make it
more usable if I figure that out.

Outlook is no different than the bible or the law: you
have to figure it out. I chose to remove it. Actually, after a
nightmare-in hell, I un-installed, re-installed (MS Office 2003) and
unchecked/unticked--- OUTLOOK.

Perhaps OUTLOOK in Office 2007 will be an improvement?

http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/pricing.mspx#EW