As far as calendar sharing goes I haven't been able to get different user
accounts on the same machine to do more than get a copy of another Vista
calendar. So the respective calendars don't automatically track with each
other. It would be preferable if everybody was accessing the same calendar
file.

A serious problem with Vista calendar is that it is frequently not alerting
me to appointments/events. Sometimes days will go by and abruptly I'm
presented with a list of past due items. There may be a "good" reason for
this happening but I can't imagine what it is as I log into the account
associated with the calendar at least once a day.

With respect to mail, can different users on a machine have their own
instance of Outlook 2007 running with access to their own mail?

"Diane Poremsky {MVP}" wrote in message
...
The calendar is very similar to the Vista Calendar. It can be shared with
other user accounts. Outlook 2007, like 2000, supports POP3 accts but in
most cases does not support "web accounts".

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/
Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/

Outlook Tips by email:


Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com
Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter:




"MikeH" wrote in message
...
I am running Vista and was unable to get my old Office 2000 calendar to
work (Word and Excel are fine). The built-in Windows Mail and Windows
calendar in Vista suck. Calendar regularly fails to alert me to
appointments and Mail intermittently loses email bodies when I move them
into folders (the header looks OK but the body is from a different
email). Under XP I was running Outlook Express.

The office 2000 problems might be solvable but I don't have good
documentation and have questionable right to use the product anyway (no
longer working for the company that provided it). So I've considered
buying Outlook 2007. Reading the colorful descriptions of the product it
tells me wonderful things it can do but finding out exactly how it
performs vanilla tasks like calendar and email gets lost in the glitz. I
am assuming I can interface with my POP3 mail accounts and perhaps web
mail accounts and I'm also assuming its calendar is as good or better
than the one in Office 2000. I'd also like the calendar to be sharable
between two or more accounts but separate accounts have their own email
spaces.

Will Outlook 2007 do these things for me?

Yes, each user can have their own instance of outlook. To share the same
calendar, you need a pst in a location each user can access.

Do you have vista calendar's reminder service enabled? it runs even if the
calendar is closed to fire reminders, something outlook's does not.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/
Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/

Outlook Tips by email:

Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter:


Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com






"MikeH" wrote in message
...
As far as calendar sharing goes I haven't been able to get different user
accounts on the same machine to do more than get a copy of another Vista
calendar. So the respective calendars don't automatically track with each
other. It would be preferable if everybody was accessing the same
calendar file.

A serious problem with Vista calendar is that it is frequently not
alerting me to appointments/events. Sometimes days will go by and
abruptly I'm presented with a list of past due items. There may be a
"good" reason for this happening but I can't imagine what it is as I log
into the account associated with the calendar at least once a day.

With respect to mail, can different users on a machine have their own
instance of Outlook 2007 running with access to their own mail?

"Diane Poremsky {MVP}" wrote in message
...
The calendar is very similar to the Vista Calendar. It can be shared
with other user accounts. Outlook 2007, like 2000, supports POP3 accts
but in most cases does not support "web accounts".

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/
Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/

Outlook Tips by email:


Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com
Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter:




"MikeH" wrote in message
...
I am running Vista and was unable to get my old Office 2000 calendar to
work (Word and Excel are fine). The built-in Windows Mail and Windows
calendar in Vista suck. Calendar regularly fails to alert me to
appointments and Mail intermittently loses email bodies when I move them
into folders (the header looks OK but the body is from a different
email). Under XP I was running Outlook Express.

The office 2000 problems might be solvable but I don't have good
documentation and have questionable right to use the product anyway (no
longer working for the company that provided it). So I've considered
buying Outlook 2007. Reading the colorful descriptions of the product
it tells me wonderful things it can do but finding out exactly how it
performs vanilla tasks like calendar and email gets lost in the glitz.
I am assuming I can interface with my POP3 mail accounts and perhaps web
mail accounts and I'm also assuming its calendar is as good or better
than the one in Office 2000. I'd also like the calendar to be sharable
between two or more accounts but separate accounts have their own email
spaces.

Will Outlook 2007 do these things for me?