Outlook lost many of it's best features

[Guest]

I fully appreciate many of Outlook's newest features, truly I do. However, I
miss some of the features which are missing, impossible to find if they are
still there or just so darn complicated to employ. Such as adding a
background sound. No more Format/Background/Sound. Now you have to view a web
tool bar which you can't view unless you have Word as your editor except my
smiley program doesn't work if Word is my editor and it's all a moot point
anyway if you have SP2 because it's a known issue that sounds and SP2 don't
work together!
Also I used to be able to right click on an embedded image and save it in
it's file format. Now it only saves it as a bitmap unless of course you learn
to write a macro script, enable macros everytime you want to save something,
open the email, save attachments (you save all of them whether you want them
or not) then they all appear on your desktop so now you fish through them to
find the one you want and if it's a gif, you lose the animation anyway.
Why so complicated? Why take away the goodies? If a buy a car in a newer
model I expect it to still have a radio AND a cd palyer - not a 5disc
exchanger but find they've done away with the radio!
Please re-instate my user friendly features, I don't want to learn to write
macro scripts!

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Not all is true and it's hard explaining when you don't mention your Outlook
version;
-Inserting sound by Format-> Background-> Sound is Outlook Express
functionality and not Microsoft Office Outlook functionality
-Inserting sound with Windows XP SP2 works for me with Outlook 2003SP1
-Saving embedded pictures has always been a nag. I can't really recall if it
has ever worked by a rightclick. It worked for OE though but again; that'is
another program
-For the saving embedded pictures macro see
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/saveembeddedpictures.htm
it will not corrupt animated gifs either

Hope this helped!

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Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
www.howto-outlook.com

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