The fact that MS Office 2010 is officially on the store shelves, doesn’t mean that all the bugs have been cleaned out. At this stage, although 2010 Office has some really cool features and a pleasing layout, I wouldn’t recommend anyone to rush out and buy it.
Outlook especially, has a few issues. I had presumed that my satellite Internet connection was to blame for some of the glitches, but having just moved to a new premises, with DSL Internet, Outlook is still causing me some grief.
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Having been away from the computer for a few days during the BIG move, the inevitable backlog of emails had to be dealt with on my return. This is not usually a problem. Delete an email and the next email is automatically highlighted ..yes? Not always so with Outlook 2010. Deleting an email older than a few days doesn’t always highlight the next email. Instead, the cursor returns to the top of the inbox and I have to scroll down the inbox to the place where I was working. I haven’t yet worked out why it does it most of the time, but not all of the time.
It also takes an inordinately long time to delete the email. Try to rush it by clicking on another email and the screen hazes over and the most likely result is a crash and restore.
The BETA version of Office comes equipped with a ‘Send a Smile’ and ‘Send a Frown’ instant messaging feature, allowing bugs and likes to be sent directly to Microsoft, but this is one-way traffic and help and advice only comes from sources outside of Microsoft.
I’ll keep plugging away at this version of Office for a while, but the bugs outweigh the new features at this stage.
