Susan Harkins
ssharkins at bellsouth.net
Sun Feb 22 07:38:15 CST 2004
Susan is too busy to post those "impossible" questions which did catalyze threads with 100+ messages. ===========I apologize for all my failings. :) I have been busy -- working on my third book with Mike G since fall. Nothing this crowd will be interested in though I don't think. :) An interesting one will be out next month and I'll be glad to talk about it then -- cause I'd like to get this crowd's reaction to the whole move. I've been using Outlook 2003 and there are things that just don't work that seem to work for other people -- I have no clue what's wrong with it (aside from my incompetence in this area). :( For instance, the new AutoComplete feature uses names from my Outlook Express address book instead of the Outlook contacts I've entered. It did that before I imported the address book from OE. I imported it, but Outlook still won't read names entered as contacts--it only uses the names in my original OE address book. Truly strange. But overall, I like it better than OE, even if it is still a memory hog. If anyone's using the BCM and has some good documentation they could point me to I'd be grateful. I don't have any articles for the next issue of MTM, so somebody needs to get busy. :) I followed the article on Access becoming extinct and found it interesting -- how many of you are actually using or supporting Access 2003? I'm curious if any of you are actually using any of the new features like the Object Dependencies task pane and so on. I have to upgrade each time, but at this point, publishers are wanting to cover up to 4 versions in one article -- I tell them, "no, but thank you for asking..." ;) Collaboration seems to be the big push and I just don't have any need for it personally, but that is the push so my guess is a large part of the user base wants it. We don't need no stinkin' smart tags... ;) How many of you are moving to .NET? Seems like the next frontier, but I may not go west. ;) I'm getting to old to keep up. ;) I'll be working with basics, but I can't imagine ever taking it on at a development level. I don't like working that hard. Unlike so many of you, this is just something I do to make money, not something I'm passionate about. I don't code in my sleep -- unless I'm having a nightmare. :) Shouldn't TechEd be just around the corner? Anyone going? I haven't been in years. Susan H.