Office 2003 -- How do you like it?

[ndee]

Originally posted by: Booster

The other persons als needs to have Office 2003 then? Right? That it's read-only, I can understand that but what would the reason be that you may not print out a document?

For security reasons, obviously. I think I'll stick to the 2K as long as possible, all this new stuff bothers me.

Security Reasons? Hm, can't you just copy and paste it? Oh well, Office XP is enough for me at the moment.

 

[ndee]

Originally posted by: gopunk

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: gopunk

Originally posted by: ndee

Originally posted by: Nocturnal

Originally posted by: ndee
I read that it has some of the most useless features EVER. That you can turn let the document destory after X days, etc. How friggin' stupid.

wtf?

Or if you send a document, you can prevent that it is printed out, etc.

uh, why's that stupid? it's not fool proof, but it doesn't hurt to have a few additional controls over what people do with your document.

The other persons als needs to have Office 2003 then? Right? That it's read-only, I can understand that but what would the reason be that you may not print out a document?

well yes... presumably you wouldn't be able to open the document without office 2003 for security purposes.

and you dont' want them to print out a document becasue you don't want to leave a paper trail / evidence or anything that could be used against you in the future.

Cool. I find it stupid. I hate reading things on the monitor.

 

[neonerd]

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
Once I save up some $ I think I'll be buying the basic version. How is it? I enjoyed the beta. I especially enjoyed being able to minimize Outlook to the task bar.

you can minimize it to the taskbar w/ office 2002 also...just edit in the registry this:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Microsoft > Office > 10.0 > Outlook > Preferances

once you have that open, add a DWORD value "MinToTray" (without the quotes). Set the value equal to 1 to turn it on, and 0 to disable it.

enjoy

EDIT: Didn't read that other people already posted how to do this...o well

 

[Gand1]

There are quite a few reason for not allowing someone to print something out. The main reason would be if you own copyrighted material but need someone to read a few lines of it. Or if you wanted to have someone pay for a licence before they can print. Or if the document is confidential material and you can't leave paper laying on any persons desk.

Hmmm...... sounds like a good business feature to me.

 

[Nocturnal]

Can you add the MinToTray to any application?

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
Can you add the MinToTray to any application?

no not like that. outlook has this feature already but the user interface just doesn't provide a way to enable it.

 

[trmiv]

I love the new Outlook 2003, great for me at work. We have an MSDN subscription at work, and as soon as the Office 2003 Pro Enterprise edition came, we all upgraded, just for Outlook. The new product, InfoPath, is pretty cool too. We are making some nice fill-in forms to speed along some data entry.

 

[Mrburns2007]

There's apps that allow you to tray any app, I'll find my favorite freeware app and post it.

 

[Schadenfroh]

bah, another office, now my knowledge of office xp is useless like my knowledge of 2k when xp came out. stop changing stuff micro$haft, just take all the bloatware out and use the 2k intereface without all the stupid sidebars and clippy and that dog search thing.

/never tried office2k03 but presumes its as bad as xp

 

[Mrburns2007]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
bah, another office, now my knowledge of office xp is useless like my knowledge of 2k when xp came out. stop changing stuff micro$haft, just take all the bloatware out and use the 2k intereface without all the stupid sidebars and clippy and that dog search thing.

/never tried office2k03 but presumes its as bad as xp

Actually 2003 is pretty nice

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
Once I save up some $ I think I'll be buying the basic version. How is it? I enjoyed the beta. I especially enjoyed being able to minimize Outlook to the task bar.

You can do that with any version of Outlook.

Not running Outlook 2000 on Win2K you can't.

 

[Mrburns2007]

Originally posted by: Mrburns2007
There's apps that allow you to tray any app, I'll find my favorite freeware app and post it.

Here's that app called Trayit: 37 KB
Trayit 37 KB

 

[Kadarin]

Originally posted by: dighn

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
Can you add the MinToTray to any application?

no not like that. outlook has this feature already but the user interface just doesn't provide a way to enable it.

Hooray for retarded UI programming...

I plan to stay with my current version until I absolutely have to upgrade (though I don't consider it an "upgrade" if I am forced to migrate because Microsoft chose to break compatibility with prior Office versions).

 

[m2kewl]

still using office 97 here.

43,800 hrs of usage, purrs like a kitten - not one oil change needed...yet

 

No different than Office XP as far as I can tell. Outlook has a "skin" or something. I actually went back to Office XP last re-install.