Comments on: 15 Simple Ways Microsoft Could Improve Computing

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:56:20 +0000

8. Provide a Horizontal template for Word.
Actually, there is a template.

Click on the ‘File’ menu. Click ‘Page Setup’.
Then switch the drop-down menu from “Portrait” to “Landscape”.
Click ‘OK’.

I hate it when people just assume there is no tool or application to perform such a simple function, but they don’t even bother looking in the Help section of Word or even online to see if it’s possible.

By: Arthur Page

Arthur Page — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:02:25 +0000

The contact duplicate resolution IS HUGE. I know some one with thousands of duplicate contacts. If you use card scan with frequency, its easy to get a ton of contacts quickly. Here is the SIMPLE solution.

1). Merge duplicate contacts with field preference given to the most recently created or modified contact while also allowing empty fields in primary contact file to be replaced with fields from older contact file.

2). Automatically update contact information by sending VCards with every email. Newest VCards automatically over write old VCards.

3). Automatically sync with social networking services such as Linked In, Facebook, and Myspace.

4). Apple knows best, their contact doesn’t display unfilled fields when viewing contacts, only editing. It’s easy to see contact information when you don’t have to tab through home, business, work, school, notes, other.

5). Custom fields. Microsoft is so arrogant to think that they can predict exactly all the fields that a person will need to sort their contacts. They only leave us the notes section. Apple has it so much better, you can create feilds. Improve upon Apple’s model by creating fields for groups, such as a work email for work contacts in the work group or a birthday field in the friends and family group.

By: Özel Ders Öğretmen Eğitim Kurs

Özel Ders Öğretmen Eğitim Kurs — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:24:57 +0000

Good read, you are so about “Don’t put email from my contacts in my spam box” . I don’t understand how they can mess something so simple and easy to fix.

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Naik’s News » Koral would make Vista cool — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 21:24:44 +0000

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By: TAG

TAG — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 14:21:18 +0000

5. Office “lite” or “quickload”. Use Microsoft Excel Viewer, Word Viewer, PowerPoint Viewer. Picking limited feature set for editing is impossible - viewing-only already done and FREE (costs of Windows still apply) !

By: TAG

TAG — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 14:15:28 +0000

5. Add useful information to the task manager. Use Process Explorer from Microsoft Sysinternals.

By: Jeremy Toeman

Jeremy Toeman — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 08:13:45 +0000

Alistair – good one!

Jeff – I have it checked, it doesn’t matter. For some reason, this gets ignored at times…

By: Jeff Johnson

Jeff Johnson — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 02:27:09 +0000

#15 – Outlook 2003 does have the option to not spam-filter addresses in your Contacts. Not sure if this is enabled by default, though, or whether Outlook 2007 is different.

Tools, Options. Preferences Tab. Hit the Junk Email button. In the Junk Email Options dialog, hit the Safe Senders tab. There’s an ‘ALso trust e-mail from my COntacts’ checkbox near the bottom.