From TNPC issue #4.10...

Al's Ongoing Office eXPerience

by Al Gordon
May 17, 2001

Yes, there are a number of things in Office XP that are really annoying but let's start off with a few pet peeves from previous versions of Office that the upcoming XP version actually eliminates:

-- Outlook 2002 no longer clogs your desktop with multiple dialog boxes when you have more than one task reminder message. Instead they are combined in one box.

-- Also, you can now edit a reminder and save the changes and keep the existing reminder schedule (over the years, I have gotten REALLY tired of those "your reminder time is in the past..." messages).

-- The new Smart Tag (an embedded dialog) feature allows you to get control of cutting and pasting. When you paste text into Word, Excel, or PowerPoint, a Smart Tag allows you to choose the formatting that will be applied. The lack of that has been especially annoying in pasting material into documents that you've copied from Web pages.

-- And, at last, you can actually open more than open document at a time in Publisher.

NEXT TIME: why the Task Pane doesn't work at startup.

You can reach Al Gordon at:
mailto:al@TheNakedPC.com

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