• Thinking out loud

    I have some more “notes” on Outlook 2003, but before I post them I’m considering the possibility of giving those Office Beta Notes a blog of their own. What, another blog? Isn’t 2 enough? Well yes, but this one would only be temporary, until Nov. 30 when the beta period ends, and it would then…

  • Power outage

    Seems our work ISP is having a power outage at their office, so there may not be much of me on the internet until later. I’m using my laptop and personal dial-up to craft this entry but I can’t use this for much and get work done on my other machines at the same time….

  • Outlook

    The first bit of Office that I looked at was Outlook 2003. I spent a good portion of late Saturday night/Sunday morning learning about the differences and features. It took a little while to adjust to the 3 panes-across layout as opposed to the 1 pane on the left, two panes over top of each…

  • Installing

    OK, I’ve got the MS Office beta, OneNote beta, InfoPath beta and Publisher beta installed. It wasn’t overly difficult and ran into only one small problem. Outlook on first start needed me to reinsert the Office CD in order to create the first “welcome message”. It was ok 1 minute later. Activation took about a…