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paul.domaskis
Apologies for the repost, I corrected some wording and removed
original post via Google Groups.
Outlook Journal entries each have timers that allow one to measure
time spent on the associated work. In a multitasking environment, one
could switch back and forth between journal entries, stopping one
entry's timer and starting the next entry's timer on each switch.
However, it is very easy to forget to switch off a timer for an entry
when you've turned your attention away from the associated work e.g.
from an interrupting conversation, which could lead to other
interrupting tasks. When you finally notice it the unpaused timer,
possibly much later, it has become a runaway timer. The timer
information for the entry will be completely lost, even though it may
have been carefully maintained up to the point where you forgot to
pause it i.e. up to that point, you may have properly started and
stopped it many times, at the right times, but resulting timer
information is still lost. This leads to much guestimation of actual
times for journal entries, which casts a blight on the otherwise
immense usefulness of Outlook Journal.
Is there a way to ensure that only one timer is running at once? That
is, when you hit the timer start button of any task, the timers of all
other open journal entries are automatically stopped (possibly with a
warning and confirmation first)?
I am using both Windows 2000 and WindowsXP, with somewhat limited user
rights (re. installing things and registry changes). A solution that
is native to M$ Office would help.
original post via Google Groups.
Outlook Journal entries each have timers that allow one to measure
time spent on the associated work. In a multitasking environment, one
could switch back and forth between journal entries, stopping one
entry's timer and starting the next entry's timer on each switch.
However, it is very easy to forget to switch off a timer for an entry
when you've turned your attention away from the associated work e.g.
from an interrupting conversation, which could lead to other
interrupting tasks. When you finally notice it the unpaused timer,
possibly much later, it has become a runaway timer. The timer
information for the entry will be completely lost, even though it may
have been carefully maintained up to the point where you forgot to
pause it i.e. up to that point, you may have properly started and
stopped it many times, at the right times, but resulting timer
information is still lost. This leads to much guestimation of actual
times for journal entries, which casts a blight on the otherwise
immense usefulness of Outlook Journal.
Is there a way to ensure that only one timer is running at once? That
is, when you hit the timer start button of any task, the timers of all
other open journal entries are automatically stopped (possibly with a
warning and confirmation first)?
I am using both Windows 2000 and WindowsXP, with somewhat limited user
rights (re. installing things and registry changes). A solution that
is native to M$ Office would help.