On 9/28/10 12:34 PM, "Diane Ross" <[email protected]> wrote:
> We can finally talk about Office for Mac 2011. Here are answers to the > questions you've asked previously. Answers provided by several MVPs. Thanks, Diane. Hope you're ready for a quantum increase in list traffic for the few months or so... I do have a few comments/questions, which I'll ask in the context of your FAQ: > There is a database but it does not contain the messages and other items as > Entourage did. Any idea whether there's a "database" file for the entire Office Suite that is updated by opening any Office component or the Office Notifications applet? I'll need to think a bit about keeping my POP3 account messages "in sync" on my Mac Pro and MacBook Pro computers (currently, I make certain that all message traffic in and out is confined to one machine and that I don't do anything that opens the Database Daemon on the other, then use Synchronize! Pro X to get the newest data onto the machine that hasn't been in use just before I leave home and once again as soon as I return home). Basically, that involves synchronizing my entire /user folder (Mac user, not MS Office main user folder), excluding a few other gargantuan machine-specific files such as Windows VMs from the sync process). If the "database" contains a pointer structure to the individual message files, I'd think it would be a real challenge to make the whole thing (database and messages) Time Machine friendly! > No. Many features of Outlook for Windows have been added but not [sic] the > feature set is not exactly alike. >From your comments about list formatting, font sizes, tabs, etc., I'm assuming this means that Outlook Mac isn't using the Word text rendering engine the way Windows Office does for messages containing complex formatting. One disappointing omission, apparently, is synchronization with iCal according to what I read on the web yesterday. Synchronization with Apple Address Book is said to be included, but not sync with iCal. > Format=flowed has finally been added. Halleluiah! > While a consolidated inbox will make the lives of many people a lot easier, > some might not want to have this feature, preferring to keep their various > inboxes separate. Let's say I have (as I do) four accounts. One is my "main" POP3 inbox, with the sendmail and POP3 servers at my ISP. The second is an IMAP account managed by a corporate entity with whom I exchange information that must be HIPAA compliant. Accordingly, everthing that goes to/from them is limited to senders/recipients on their Exchange Server. The third is my mobileme account, which is IMAP. That already comes into my main Entourage 2008 EWS (POP3 inbox), pushed by the server. The fourth is my own Exchange 2007 inbox. If I use the "unified inbox" in Outlook Mac 2011, then move received messages from that inbox to "on my computer" folders after I read them, what happens to those messages as far as the IMAP and Exchange servers are concerned? Just CREATING the IMAP/Exchange and Exchange accounts on my computer configured default folders (drafts, sent items, deleted items, junk e-mail) for messages from those respective servers. Will those servers be able to track messages moved to subfolders that I've created for messages that previously held only traffic to/from my "routine" ISP's sendmail/POP3 servers? Thanks so much, Jim Robertson -- -- YouTalk mailing list List information: http://www.entourage.mvps.org/support_options/list.html List moderator: [email protected], [email protected] To unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
