How view signatures in Outlook 2007?

[Monte Fisher]

I have quite a few signatures, and in Outlook 2003 I could scroll down,
viewing them as I went -- 2007 seems to just list the names -- is there a way
to view them before I select them?

And: 2007 seems to prohibit me from putting in more than one signature --
how can I change it to allow more than one (as 2003 did)?

And: in 2003, when viewing signatures, I could hit e.g. M and jump down to
the M-titled signatures -- any way to do that in 2007?

(Gotta say, the functionality seems to have been only reduced in 2007
compared to 2003....)

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

to preview the sigs you need to open the Signature dialog - select
Signatures... from the end of the list.

Outlook 2007 doesn't support more than one sig - if you are using them to
insert boilerplate text you should use QuickParts instead.

Shortcuts don't work on the signature list.

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[Monte Fisher]

So, once again, the answer is, NO: M$ decided to drop this feature for no
good reason. (Unless there is a super-secret hidden reason; all you've said
is "no" sans reason....)

Is there any reason not to go back to Office 2003 and count the absurd
upgrade cost of 2007 as foolish faith in M$-new-versions-mean-improvements?
(Unless one wants to link one's Word docs (a/k/a "docx"s) to xml stuff, which
I, and 99% of most actual human users, will never in our lives want to
do........) (And of course the fact that M$ has dropped most of the
2003-compatible PowerPoint backgrounds from online availability, offering
mostly just pretty-dang-cool-looking PP-2007-only backgrounds, for, again, no
articulated reason beyond ... greed...........)

If an MVP responds, it would be nice if it were with actual
reasons-supported-with-currently-relevant-urls rather than just denigrating
comments. (On another thread, an MVP supported M$'s position with a link
that pointed out a problem M$ should have never let happen, but did, and
belatedly fixed a few years ago -- hardly a justification for current policy
or practice!)

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

If an MVP responds, it would be nice if it were with actual
reasons-supported-with-currently-relevant-urls rather than just denigrating
comments.

We don't always know why MS chooses to do things as they do and cannot give a
reason other than, "that's the way it is now, so we have to live with it."

 

[Monte Fisher]

Drat!

Followup: Can one, on the same PC, use all of Office 2007 except Outlook
2007, and use Outlook 2003? And, is the 2007 pst file compatible w/2003?
Thanks!

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Followup: Can one, on the same PC, use all of Office 2007 except Outlook
2007, and use Outlook 2003? And, is the 2007 pst file compatible w/2003?

You can certainly use a mixed-verison of the Office suite, but you'll lose
some of the integration features, like mail merge, spell checking, editing
mail messages with Word, and the like.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

The reason is because Outlook uses word as the only editor now - the same
situation exists in 2003 if you use word as the editor. The signature
process is different with word as the editor - in part because sigs are
assigned to accounts and change if you change accounts.

Using signatures for inserting boilerplate text was a hack - there were
other ways (autotext, autocomplete for example), but signatures were quick
and easy. It's like hitting Del key to file mail as you read it - sure it's
an easy way to keep the inbox clean and a surprisingly large number of
people use this method to file mail, but its not how the Del key (and
Deleted items folder) was intended to be used.

QuickParts replaces Autotext in Outlook 2007. Autocomplete works for text up
to 255 characters long.

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[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

The PST is compatible between 2003 and 2007 and while you can use mixed
versions, you will lose some features, most notably word as the editor and
all the features it adds. That should not be an issue for you since you use
the Outlook editor and aren't used to the features Word adds.

Mail merges will be harder to do and can't be started within outlook. some
of the Send to email features won't work as expected in the other office
apps.

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