Outlook Web Access - Worthless

[Perd Hapley]

So I'm trying to send an email to a couple of people with my work email account. Naturally, I type the first address into the box, comma, the second address. Since the beginning of time, this has worked with any email system I have used. But it doesn't work here. It, apparently, thinks that I have entered one long, misformatted address. This offends me into a state of low dudgeon, but I remain calm and attempt to cut and paste the second address into the CC box. Oh, no. Outlook Web Access will have none of this. Cut? No. Copy? Not allowed. Backspacing, deleting or otherwise editing the addresses I've entered? It shall not be. All I can do is erase them and type them over again.

This raises me to a state of medium dudgeon, which is a terrible thing to behold.

The computer survived.

Thank you for reading this rant, which has been brought to you by Carl's Jr.

[wmenorr67]

Well at least it was your fault.

[RevDisk]

Control + C to copy.  Control + V to paste.

Click on the To button, and search for each person, is easiest unless you do your addresses in notepad.

[Nick1911]

Click on the To button, and search for each person, is easiest unless you do your addresses in notepad.

Indeed.  Also, outlook regards commas as simple characters - not delimiters.  Use the semicolon to delimit addresses.

Where I work, we can actually use proper names in outlook and it'll resolve the email from them.  So something like "Smith,Jeff; Smith,Jane" will work

[roo_ster]

Friends don't let friends use MS Outlook.

[Perd Hapley]

Control + C to copy.  Control + V to paste.

Click on the To button, and search for each person, is easiest unless you do your addresses in notepad.

I don't know why, but most of my various email servers don't store my contacts. So I'm in the habit of typing them out or just replying to something unrelated they sent me in the past.

[Perd Hapley]

Indeed.  Also, outlook regards commas as simple characters - not delimiters.  Use the semicolon to delimit addresses.

Well that was a brilliant move.

[AZRedhawk44]

Nick beat me to it.  Semicolon.

[HeroHog]

Outlook is all I use. I am using MS Office Pro 2007 and am very happy with it. I needed something powerful because of the high number of email accounts I have on my several web domains and Outlook allows me to handle them all through a single interface with a well managed system of folders and rules automation that make my life MUCH easier given the volume of messages I deal with on a daily basis.

[41magsnub]

Friends don't let friends use MS Outlook.

How very helpful!

[Scout26]

And I think there's a way to get it to recognize the comma as a separator.  I had to use MS Outhouse Outlook at one place I worked at and remember fiddling with it, until it was okay to use comma's.  I also managed to change the standard disclaimer tagline on every outgoing e-mail in the company.  I only changed two words, but it made it extremely snarky, and no one noticed for 6+ months. 

[MrsSmith]

Thank you for reading this rant, which has been brought to you by Carl's Jr.

There's no Carl's Jr. in MO.

And I've always used a semi-colon between email addresses, thought that was standard.

[AZRedhawk44]

There's no Carl's Jr. in MO.

And I've always used a semi-colon between email addresses, thought that was standard.

Isn't Hardee's big out in the Midwest?  Same chain.

[Hawkmoon]

Indeed.  Also, outlook regards commas as simple characters - not delimiters.  Use the semicolon to delimit addresses.

Where I work, we can actually use proper names in outlook and it'll resolve the email from them.  So something like "Smith,Jeff; Smith,Jane" will work

But only if "Smith, Jeff," and "Smith, Jane" are entered into your system as users or addressees, right? If you're on the phone with an "outsider" named Georgiadis Xylophonis, who has never ever had any previous dealing with your organization, is your Otlook going to reach out and scour the Internet until it finds an e-mail address for "Xylophonis, Georgiadis"? And if it does, how will it know if you should use Georgie from Atlanta or Georgie from Seattle?

[Perd Hapley]

Mrs Smith, the Carl's Jr. reference is from Idiocracy. Which is also required viewing for APS. 

Isn't Hardee's big out in the Midwest?  Same chain.

Or at least they are related. I don't think I've ever been to a Carl's Jr.

[MrsSmith]

Mrs Smith, the Carl's Jr. reference is from Idiocracy. Which is also required viewing for APS. 


Or at least they are related. I don't think I've ever been to a Carl's Jr.

OMG! Could I just get a *expletive deleted*ing list of the required viewing materials already?

Never been to Carl's Jr? Meh, other than it being kind of a late-night drunken greasy cheeseburger kind of SoCal icon hangout there really isn't much that sets it apart from others.

[Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas]

OMG! Could I just get a *expletive deleted*ing list of the required viewing materials already?

Zardoz (on Netflix instant)
Firefly/Serenity
The Hebrew Hammer (on hulu)
Idiocracy
Demolition Man. "Murder death kill!" And this scene among others.
And many more.

[BridgeRunner]

Zardoz (on Netflix instant)

For the love of god, man, give the woman a little warning or something.  She needs to have a good supply of brain-bleach on hand before embarking on that mission.

[Doggy Daddy]

Never been to Carl's Jr? Meh, other than it being kind of a late-night drunken greasy cheeseburger kind of SoCal icon hangout there really isn't much that sets it apart from others.

Except that they seem to put barbeque sauce on EVERYthing!

DD

[Scout26]

Pulp Fiction
Boondock Saints
John Wayne Movies
Idiocracy

[AZRedhawk44]

Pulp Fiction
Boondock Saints
John Wayne Movies
Idiocracy

Fixed to eliminate stoopidness.  John Wayne sucks as an actor.  He's a role-player.  Original old school D&D, just a cowboy instead of a lawful-good paladin with +2 dexterity.

[Perd Hapley]

Zardoz (on Netflix instant)
Firefly/Serenity
The Hebrew Hammer (on hulu)
Idiocracy
Demolition Man. "Murder death kill!" And this scene among others.
And many more.

   So the answer is "No."

Oh, MrsSmith, you must also be conversant in man-purses, have a preference for one operating system or text editor, over another, and many more...

[BryanP]

As someone who is being forced to leave Groupwise and move to Outlook Web Access / Exchange I feel your pain. I've been on it a couple of weeks now and it's usable, but definitely missing features I was used to having.

The #1 feature I miss: the ability to look at the properties of an email and see the status of each recipient, "read", "replied", "forwarded", "deleted" etc.. *sigh*

[mtnbkr]

After 10 years with Lotus Notes, I'm very happy to be using Outlook.  I practically live in Outlook these days. 

Chris

[Jamie B]

After entering a name or partial name in Outhouse, hit <Control + K> , which will bring up a list of possible names.

I hit <Enter> after each name in order to enter the next one.