1) Alright, I get it a bit better now. Note that you can already put your
Favorites in Outlook by adding the Favorites menu;
View-> Toolbars-> Customize-> tab Commands-> category Menu Bar-> command
Favorites
It won't allow you to synch it to another on-line system but this can be
easily overcome by a utitliy that stores your Favorites on-line like Windows
Live Favorites. Another way to go would be to export your favorites to a
htm-file and put it on your own website. I think an IE newsgroup could give
you even more ideas to accomplish this.
2) My mail gets organized directly based on their properties when they are
being received. I look at my new mails in a single overview through Search
Folders so the physical location of the message received doesn't matter and
I don't have to bother with moving them manually after I have read them.
Anyway , I think this add-in will support your method of working a bit more;
http://www.howto-outlook.com/redirect.asp?id=pergenex_automate
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Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
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1 - The modification I need, vitally connects to the way I organize my daily
work. I use Outlook's funcionalities for that. I have turned Outlook
folders into a single "command" center where I put all of my needed items:
[messages], [files] (all types of files allowed as attachments by Outlook,
that I send to Outlook in the form of posted attachments), [tasks] (as
posted
discussions). An exception are here the Adresses Book and the Calendar
items. What I am missing is to also have all of my bookmarks sent in this
tree. If synchronisation of these two folder systems was possible, than
whenever I open my Internet browser, the Outlook folder system would be
synch-ed with the IE bookmarks. From here I can than easily synchronize IE
bookmars with my Yahoo bookmarks.
Specifically, I would not of course need this synchronisation to include the
files. They can remain in my desktop, either at my home's PC, or at my
office's PC.
The "folder system" is an old concept for many softwares' funcinality. What
one day I understood it was wrong, is that the poor individual PC user has
to
produce so many trees. The tree is such a powerful tool that have been
ironically ignored just by being... overused.
Outlook did try in its 2007 version to get closer to the "all in one"
funcionality. But still its Task Pane, doesn't really do it.
The user still has [tasks] in a fodler system, and [messages] in another
folder system, and of course apart from these, the Windows Explorer folder
system for the [files].
Damned I am not a programmer (I used to be when I was a student) but I feel
this is possible.
Once this is done, Outlook will really become a unique organiser.
Maybe the idea of synchronisation would need to be extended to between the
Wondows explorer folder system and the Outlook one, so that unlike me, the
files are put in the normal place in the hard disk, rather than how I do it:
put all of them as attachments within the [.pst] file, which now is getting
closer to 3 GB.
2 - The [Rules and Alerts>New Rule..>Stay Organised>] under the Tools menu,
is just missing a new command: [Ask me in which folder you put all of the:
a-incoming b-outgoing messages]. This would make it the satisfying of my
need.
Roady said:
It helps explaining WHY you need this.
1) I don't know how to see this. What has mail got to do with Internet
favorites?
2) This sounds like a specific need to me which can be overcome by some
VBA.
In general I would see this as a step back as I want Outlook to do this
automatically instead of manually. Consider using a combination of rules,
Search Folders, views and categories.
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Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
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1. I need Outlook to synchronise the folders strucuture with those in
Internet Explorer favourites.
I do use the same structure and I'm doing this manually so far.
2. I need Outlook to automatically ask me if I want to put an item (e-mail
message, meeting request, task, post, or note) in a specific folder. It
should ask this whenever I read/open the item or whenever I send one.
Roady said:
It helps explaining WHY you need this.
1) I don't know how to see this. What has mail got to do with Internet
favorites?
2) This sounds like a specific need to me which can be overcome by some
VBA.
In general I would see this as a step back as I want Outlook to do this
automatically instead of manually. Consider using a combination of rules,
Search Folders, views and categories.
--
Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003
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1. I need Outlook to synchronise the folders strucuture with those in
Internet Explorer favourites.
I do use the same structure and I'm doing this manually so far.
2. I need Outlook to automatically ask me if I want to put an item (e-mail
message, meeting request, task, post, or note) in a specific folder. It
should ask this whenever I read/open the item or whenever I send one.
