Upgrade to 2007?

[MS]

I'm using Outlook (and Office) 2003, with Win XPSP3.

What advantages (and disadvantages, if any, besides the expense) would I
find in upgrading to Outlook 2007? (Of course the upgrade would be to Office
2007, but for this discussion we can just discuss the changes to Outlook,
not other Office programs.)

Is 2007 less buggy, more stable? (Not always the case with new versions.
Sometimes adding new features creates more bugs.) (For instance, would the
problem I recently described of losing text on sending an e-mail, occur just
as likely in OL 2007?)

Thank you.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Depends on what you are looking for. Some notable features;
-the "To-Do Bar"
-Calendar Overlay Mode
-improved Tasks display in Calendar
-reminders across folders
-Scheduling your Out of Office Assistant with Exchange 2007
-Instant Search
-of course; the new editor with Ribbon support

Your previous issue is just as likely to happen again as long as you
continue to use a virus scanner that integrates with Outlook. As said
before; Outlook isn't the cause of that issue.

 

[MS]

Your previous issue is just as likely to happen again as long as you
continue to use a virus scanner that integrates with Outlook. As said
before; Outlook isn't the cause of that issue.

See further posts I made to that thread. I doubt that my anti-virus could
have caused that, as it does not have Outlook integration.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

It probably has or you've omitted some information in your post. Messages
don't convert themselves to Plain Text by pressing the Send button.

 

[MS]

Here is a bug I have encountered in Outlook 2003, that I wonder if it has
been fixed in 2007:

I used to use Word as my e-mail editor. I found that it had some advantages
with formatting, etc.

However, it caused a problem. In Word I had the option selected, to replace
straight quotes with smartquotes. Looks better in a Word document that way.
But it messed up Outlook e-mail.

Even in plain text e-mail (my default) (where one normally would not try to
use smartquotes), Outlook would put some kind of attempt at smartquotes in
the message, which the spell-checker would reject.

When I would see the message back in a quote from someone replying to me,
the quotes and apostrophes would be replaced by squares and other symbols.

I finally deselected that option in Word about smartquotes. Strangely
enough, the problem continued.

Fiually, I de-selected the option in Outlook, to use Word as my e-mail
editor. Too many problems with it (Office 2003).

Does "use Word as E-mail Editor" work better in Office 2007?

 

[Roady [MVP]]

There is no Word e-mail editor anymore in Outlook 2007. It has been replaced
by a completely new email editor which is based on a Word component.
Composing settings from Word and Outlook are now separated as well.