Capability questions

[MikeH]

I'm having a problem digging up these answers online.

I am about to install Windows 7. No calendar is included. The calendar
which is part of Windows Live Mail does not do it for me -- it won't
generate pop-ups on the desktop (reminders must go to email or
WLMessenger -- which produces a short-lived pop-up) and there is no way to
snooze a reminder. Windows Calendar under Vista wasn't the greatest thing
ever but it did pop-up reminders that persisted until the user took an
action and the snooze options were good.

My question: how does the calendar in Office 2007 compare in these areas? I
realize that it has a rich set of capabilities but I am mainly concerned
with the aforementioned.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

I am about to install Windows 7. No calendar is included. The calendar
which is part of Windows Live Mail does not do it for me -- it won't
generate pop-ups on the desktop (reminders must go to email or
WLMessenger -- which produces a short-lived pop-up) and there is no way to
snooze a reminder. Windows Calendar under Vista wasn't the greatest thing
ever but it did pop-up reminders that persisted until the user took an
action and the snooze options were good.

My question: how does the calendar in Office 2007 compare in these areas? I
realize that it has a rich set of capabilities but I am mainly concerned
with the aforementioned.

In my opinion, Outlook's calendar will provide what you seek.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

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[Judy Gleeson \(MVP Outlook\)]

Microsoft's website has some good demonstrations of Outlook. Search
"Microsoft Outlook home page" and you'll find there's a lot! Same thing
goes for their other applications, the home page is a good start.

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I'm having a problem digging up these answers online.

I am about to install Windows 7. No calendar is included. The calendar
which is part of Windows Live Mail does not do it for me -- it won't
generate pop-ups on the desktop (reminders must go to email or
WLMessenger -- which produces a short-lived pop-up) and there is no way
to snooze a reminder. Windows Calendar under Vista wasn't the greatest
thing ever but it did pop-up reminders that persisted until the user took
an action and the snooze options were good.

My question: how does the calendar in Office 2007 compare in these areas?
I realize that it has a rich set of capabilities but I am mainly
concerned with the aforementioned.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Gordon]

I'm having a problem digging up these answers online.

I am about to install Windows 7. No calendar is included. The calendar
which is part of Windows Live Mail does not do it for me -- it won't
generate pop-ups on the desktop (reminders must go to email or
WLMessenger -- which produces a short-lived pop-up) and there is no way to
snooze a reminder. Windows Calendar under Vista wasn't the greatest thing
ever but it did pop-up reminders that persisted until the user took an
action and the snooze options were good.

My question: how does the calendar in Office 2007 compare in these areas?
I realize that it has a rich set of capabilities but I am mainly concerned
with the aforementioned.

Thanks in advance.

In addition to the other replies you might look at Mozilla Sunbird which is
a stand-alone FREE calendar that will do pop-ups as you are wanting. It will
ALSO send reminders to an email address, which is something Outlook does NOT
do.....

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/

You could also use Mozilla Thunderbird with the integrated Calendar Mozilla
Lightning to produce a free Outlook-lookalike, (not quite as functional as
the real thing but very good as it's free!) if you want a replacement for
WLM....

 

[Mike]

I did that, downloaded it, and am so far very happy with that product.
Not bad for FREE! I think I'm going to go with Thunderbird for email too.