Why Not Use Outlook 2007?

9th January 2008

Sorry, here’s another quick thing that sucks about Office 2007, this time in Outlook. (There are so many things to hate in Office 2007 that I’ve added now added MS Office to my blog as it’s own subcategory of Microsoft for future rants.)

A client emails me back their end of month report - right click the attachment, choose “save as” and I get “Cannot Save The Attachment”

Why not? Who knows? I don’t have time to guess, Microsoft.

The file is not corrupt, I was able to rename it and save, but if I were the average user of Office in a non-tech industry, I’d probably have to call or email my IT guy, so he could tell me to:

right click - save as - append the file name before the extension with an edit - like…
filename.xls becomes filename-new.xls

Then , I might ultimately figure out on my own that it was because I had a document already open with that name, and that had wasted a bunch of time