I have to say that Outlook is probably the application I most detest and yet have to use every day. Mostly because it doesn't have the functionality I want or because doing what I want takes longer than it should.
It does mean that it might have features I have never found since my investigations into it are always under duress.
With respect to the calendar period "zoom", ie from minutes to years, the Calendar in Microsoft Outlook does have this kind of feature.-Yahya
I'm not aware that it has a year view. I know you can get an ActiveX control to give a year view, but that is still only one year.
And putting tasks into the Calendar seems to require completion of the d....d form. What I want to do is to drag things on and drag the times to get them precisely. And to be able to do that with color categories, especially useful for a year view. And to have multiple calendars like Holidays (eg mine and family's).
Your user spec sounds like a great idea for an app, tho! Thinking laterally - have you considered the various task managers around? Again, have a look at Outlook's Tasks.-Yahya
I have had a look at a huge number of task managers (& have quite a lot installed) and PIMs (ditto) and they are all limited in one way or another. And surely Outlook's tasks must be one of the most limited features of Outlook. Not even any hierarchy.
Another thing about Outlook is you can customise it considerably, creating your own forms etc, but this would mean you were effectively creating an add-on to Outlook. -Yahya
I didn't know about this. But then getting away from forms completely is one of the main objects.
so users don't need Outlook installed.-Yahya
And that would be very good, though hard to achieve since the one thing it is useful as is as the most pervasive way of moving data from one prog to another.
Thanks for the opportunity to let off a little more steam over Outlook.
