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Macworld, on 17 November 2010 - 08:01 AM, said:

If this is as powerful as "Page Break Preview" was in Excel 2004, this alone would be sufficient reason for me to upgrade to Excel 2011. Excel 2008's loss of the ability to fine tune page breaks with WYSIWYG interface was as big a Microsoft marketing screw-up as was loss of macros.

"Will Outlook's calendar and contacts sync easily with the iPhone?"

It should work? How can you post an Outlook review without testing this?

And, Since Outlook uses Synch Servcies to get things to Address Book and iCal (and there is no iCal synch in Outlook 2011)

And, since the iPhone and the iPod Touch synch with iCal,

How can you say it should work?

Good information. I'll point our IT department to it.

I would love to see the Applescript dictionary for Outlook before I get it. (Won't be getting it until our company has Exchange 2010 in a year or two.)

How about an article on Applescripting Office apps?

One of the questions referred to a "journal feature" that is available in both the Windows and Mac versions of Outlook. I looked in the Outlook 2011's help file, but could not find any reference to this.

What is the "journal feature"?

Does Outlook for Mac have the Journal feature found in the Windows version?
Yes.


Uhh, where is this feature? Outlook Help doesn't seem to know.

Does Outlook 2011 sync categories with Exchange Server? Entourage doesn't appear to. I use both OS X (primary) and Windows at work and use categories to organize my email with minimal use of folders. I would be great if the categorization done on my Mac would transfer over to the Win machine.

I have several accounts set up in Outlook 2011 but sometimes I want to disable (take it offline) one or more of them so I can concentrate on, for example, one account only. Does Outlook have the ability to disable an account (take it offline). I can't believe this function is not there but I can't find it.

spohrerga, on 17 November 2010 - 08:44 AM, said:

Contacts synch via Sync Services, events do not. Also, this isn't a review. That's a separate article.

spohrerga, on 17 November 2010 - 08:44 AM, said:

Because if you're using Exchange, then they all sync via exchange and life is easy. If you're not, then it gets more complicated, and even with the improvements to contact syncing, it's still able to have some issues. So "should". It SHOULD work, it did in my testing.

leicaman, on 17 November 2010 - 08:47 AM, said:

AppleScripting Office applications is a HUGE article, because there's so much you can do in that. Some specific requests would help. Also, the Outlook dictionary, while a rather massive rewrite, has some issues, like you can't create new messages with it. Microsoft says it's going to be fixing those issues in an upcoming update. As far as when, who knows.

atom_ant, on 17 November 2010 - 10:06 AM, said:

Category sync heavily depends on the version of Exchange and clients. If you're on Ex 2003, not happening. I THINK Exchange started handling categories correctly some time in either 2007 or 2010.

Does anyone know the limitation of how many e-mail addresses you can add for one contact?

On the Outlook for Windows you are limited to 3 e-mails to one contact.

Is it possible to import data (address and memo) from Palm Desktop for Mac?

All these list of features make Outlook 2011 for Mac appear much better than it is. The features are like lipstick that one may like, and Outlook 2011 is the proverbial pig that this lipstick is painted on, rendering useless both the pig and the lipstick.

While Outlook 2011 looks good at first, just spending about 15 minutes hands on will reveal several significant flaws, starting with the clumsy user interface that is neither as good as Windows, or Mac compliant. Outlook is glacially slow, it's calendaring is downright stone age, and the much awaited PST import works only in one direction. Once you import it into the Mac, there is no going back to the PC version, and messages cannot be exported back to any Windows compliant format. There are several other huge problems that are listed on the Microsoft Support site at

http://www.officefor...ms/Outlook/646.

Anyone looking to migrate to Office 2011 - please read the problems and Microsoft's lack of response before purchasing a license for Office 2011. I wasted my money buying it and wish I had known the problems before buying.