Lost Passwords

[Michael Dobony]

I have Outlook 2002 SP3 running on Vista Home Premium. I have it set to
remember the passwords for my email, but it never keeps it. I have to
enter the passwords every time I send and receive mail and have to do it
twice because the first time only gives me errors. Any idea what is
happening?

 

[Tom [Pepper] Willett]

Outlook 2002 and Vista are not compatible.

:I have Outlook 2002 SP3 running on Vista Home Premium. I have it set to
: remember the passwords for my email, but it never keeps it. I have to
: enter the passwords every time I send and receive mail and have to do it
: twice because the first time only gives me errors. Any idea what is
: happening?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

See http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/vista.htm

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[Michael Dobony]

Outlook 2002 and Vista are not compatible.

thanks microsoft. May your roads require upgrades to your car and house
and lock up yoru retirement funds.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Huh? You have software that is 6+ yrs old, well outdated and insecure, no
longer supported and its Microsoft's fault that it doesn't work on their
brand new operating system? There is a lot of software that doesn't work on
vista... and if a certain program is important to you, then you should not
upgrade.

Vista's Mail and Calendar programs are a nice replacement for Outlook. Try
them. You might like them a lot better.

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[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Outlook 2003 was not a minor upgrade. I don't know where that idea came
from.

My upgrade to vista was around $900 - including new computer with vista
preinstalled ($700 + upgrade to office standard). Everything that came on
the computer was sufficient for my needs (CD burner software, DVD playback
etc.). Oh, I had to buy a new license for antivirus too - mine was expiring
soon anyway.


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[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

The Ultimate upgrade is MSRP at $539 and Office 2000 and XP qualify for
upgrade pricing. Frontpage is no longer for sale - Expression Web replaces
it but an older Frontpage might work in Vista - you'd need to check with the
frontpage newsgroup for that.

What program are you using to make office 2007 'usable"? In my experience,
when users don't have a chip on their shoulder about it, they adjust very
quickly to it and within days start talking about all the new stuff that's
in 2007. I smile, knowing it was always there, just hard to discover.

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[Michael Dobony]

The Ultimate upgrade is MSRP at $539 and Office 2000 and XP qualify for
upgrade pricing. Frontpage is no longer for sale - Expression Web replaces
it but an older Frontpage might work in Vista - you'd need to check with the
frontpage newsgroup for that.

What program are you using to make office 2007 'usable"? In my experience,
when users don't have a chip on their shoulder about it, they adjust very
quickly to it and within days start talking about all the new stuff that's
in 2007. I smile, knowing it was always there, just hard to discover.

I have to contact my son about the name of the program. It lets me see all
the normal menus and lets me put my own icons up that I use regularly.
Your comment is very interesting, knowing it is there, just hard to
discover. What happened to usability? By your own admission it is had to
discover, therefore hard to use.

I will have to check to see if my web host accepts Expression Web. I saw
it for over $200.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Office 2007 was designed with usability as the top priority - a large % of
feature requests over the last few years were for features that were in the
current version (and often for several past versions) and office 2007 tried
to expose as many of them as possible on the ribbon level - not 3 or 4 menus
deep. Its harder for expert office users to adjust but the average user
picks it up fast as do new users.

Is there a reason you aren't using the Quick Access Toolbar?

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[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

You can add anything you want to the QAT bar. click on the little down arrow
beside it and choose More Commands.

 

[Michael Dobony]

You can add anything you want to the QAT bar. click on the little down arrow
beside it and choose More Commands.

What about removing unnecessary items? And what about this i found when
looking for the add-on for making Office user friendly:

"I have struggled with this problem [spell check not working] and think I
found the answer. It seems that Office 2007 disables the english dictionary
becasue it causes problems with Outlook Express."

Just what problem does the English dictionary cause in Outlook? Is it
fixed now?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Sure you can remove commands you don't use from the QAT - that's what the
Remove button is for.

The problem with the spell checker is not that the English dictionary
doesn't work with Outlook Express (which is not the same as Outlook) but
that the spelling engine changed in Office 2007 and OE can only use the old
engine. Spelling works fine in Outlook 2007. See
http://www.outlook-tips.net/archives/2006/20061228.htm

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You can add anything you want to the QAT bar. click on the little down
arrow
beside it and choose More Commands.

What about removing unnecessary items? And what about this i found when
looking for the add-on for making Office user friendly:

"I have struggled with this problem [spell check not working] and think I
found the answer. It seems that Office 2007 disables the english
dictionary
becasue it causes problems with Outlook Express."

Just what problem does the English dictionary cause in Outlook? Is it
fixed now?

 

[Michael Dobony]

The Ultimate upgrade is MSRP at $539 and Office 2000 and XP qualify for
upgrade pricing. Frontpage is no longer for sale - Expression Web replaces
it but an older Frontpage might work in Vista - you'd need to check with the
frontpage newsgroup for that.

What program are you using to make office 2007 'usable"? In my experience,
when users don't have a chip on their shoulder about it, they adjust very
quickly to it and within days start talking about all the new stuff that's
in 2007. I smile, knowing it was always there, just hard to discover.

http://www.addintools.com/english/menuoffice/default.htm

 

[Michael Dobony]

Sure you can remove commands you don't use from the QAT - that's what the
Remove button is for.

The problem with the spell checker is not that the English dictionary
doesn't work with Outlook Express (which is not the same as Outlook) but
that the spelling engine changed in Office 2007 and OE can only use the old
engine. Spelling works fine in Outlook 2007. See
http://www.outlook-tips.net/archives/2006/20061228.htm

So Outlook 2007 is not compatible with Office 2007, but is bundled with it?
That is stupid. Per the instruction in the link I also would need to
purchase Outlook 2003 to fix Outlook 2007 to work because Outlook 2007 does
not have the proper support within Office 2007 to work properly. Will my
Office and Outlook XP work instead of Outlook 2003? What about those who
do not have an older version to make the new version work properly?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

No, no, no. Read my link again. You (and apparently others) are confusing
Outlook (the PIM included with Office) and Outlook Express (the free email
client in windows).

Outlook 2007 works perfectly fine with the spell checker that comes with
Office 2007. The problem is with that free email client that came with
windows - the free mail client only works with the spell checker that came
in older versions of Office.

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[Michael Dobony]

Sure you can remove commands you don't use from the QAT - that's what the
Remove button is for.

The problem with the spell checker is not that the English dictionary
doesn't work with Outlook Express (which is not the same as Outlook) but
that the spelling engine changed in Office 2007 and OE can only use the old
engine. Spelling works fine in Outlook 2007. See
http://www.outlook-tips.net/archives/2006/20061228.htm

I just had another read and this link is talking about OE, not Outlook.