{"id":540,"date":"2008-01-09T14:16:01","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T21:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/microsoft\/why-not-use-outlook-2007\/"},"modified":"2014-12-04T13:37:28","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T20:37:28","slug":"why-not-use-outlook-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/microsoft\/why-not-use-outlook-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Not Use Outlook 2007?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, here&#8217;s another quick thing that sucks about Office 2007, this time in Outlook. (There are so many things to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/microsoft\/things-to-hate-about-office-2007\/\" target=\"_blank\">hate in Office 2007<\/a> that I&#8217;ve added now added MS Office to my blog as it&#8217;s own subcategory of Microsoft for future rants.)<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>A client emails me back their end of month report  &#8211; right click the attachment, choose &#8220;save as&#8221; and I get &#8220;Cannot Save The Attachment&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/outlook-why-not.jpg\" alt=\"outlook-why-not.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Why not? Who knows? I don&#8217;t have time to guess, Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;d probably have to call or email my IT guy, so he could tell me to:<\/p>\n<p>right click &#8211; save as &#8211; append the file name before the extension with an edit &#8211; like&#8230;<br \/>\nfilename.xls becomes filename-new.xls<\/p>\n<p>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 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, here&#8217;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&#8217;ve added now added MS Office to my blog as it&#8217;s own subcategory of Microsoft for future rants.) A client emails me back their end of month report &#8211; right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-ms-office"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why Not Use Outlook 2007?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sorry, here&#039;s another quick thing that sucks about Office 2007, this time in Outlook. 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