Did you get a chance to test the 'move message' function? It is, without exception, far and away the best interface for moving a message in ANY mail application I have tried on the Mac, windows or linux.
-- Barry On 30/09/2010 20:19, "arkay" <[email protected]> wrote: >Test Drive of Outlook for Mac > >A guy was showing Outlook on his MBP at a coffee shop and let me take it >for a quick test drive. It was snappy and looked very nice but the first >test >message I tried did not work out as expected. > >I tried the basic OS X copy (Command-Control-Shift-4) and paste that I >use all the time in Entourage. The command worked and the picture was >embedded in the Outlook message; however, when when the person >responded to the test (using Apple Mail) he said the picture showed up as >an attachment and was not embedded in the body of the message. > >I call the Apple Mail user learned this is nothing nothing new in Outlook >because he indicated pictures or graphics embedded in the the body of >Microsoft >Entourage generated messages also show up as attachments in Apple¹s Mail. >He then sent me a message from Apple Mail with an embedded picture using >the Command-Control-Shift-4 and it showed up in Outlook as an attachment >and I had to use the lame Preview button to view the picture. > >I was still in Outlook so I tried to reply using the Picture icon in the >Outlook >ribbon and the option to ³Select from a file² was dimmed so I could not >embed >an OS X Screen shot from the desktop to the body of the message. The only >Outlook option was to attached the Screen shot to the message using the >paper >clip icon. I think the Picture icon option to select from a file only >works >for new >Outlook messages and is disabled (or dimmed) for replies. > >I am not sure but something tells you can embed pictures and graphics if >you >are sending to another Microsoft mail (Entourage or Outlook) user and the >same applies to Apple Mail to other Apple Mail users. I have seen similar >issues >with G-Mail and Yahoo web mail users. They both do weird things to >embedded >graphics. > >The above exercise ate into the few minutes I had for a quick test drive >of Outlook. Some other items I missed (or could not find) were: > >No view of ³Internet Headers² or ³source² that I use from time-to-time >from >the Entourage Message menu. > >The useful Entourage Message/Redirect a mail message was missing. > >The ³Save As² option was dimmed and I could not figure out how to save >an incoming message to the desktop. I clicked on Save and have no idea >where the message it was saved? > >I intended to test the new format=flowed (no hard line breaks) but could >not >find the icon I use in Entourage to change from HTML to text. > >I ran out of time and hope to get another test drive of Office 2011 at one >of the Apple retail sites. > >aRKay > > > > >-- >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 -- 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
