My Outlook Is Overcrowded
Over the weekend I got tired of running into problems accessing Gmail, not to mention how cluttered my email archives were beginning to feel. So I finally took the plunge and upgraded from Outlook 2002 to Outlook 2007.
And I can’t stand it so far.
Oh, sure, I know there are all sorts of nifty features and I like the idea behind running my email, calendar and RSS feeds all from one screen. But, frankly, I feel like I have no idea what I’m doing and, to make matters worse, there are so many pretty, colorful buttons and icons on the screen that I’m afraid to click any of them to find out what, exactly, their purpose is.
Hence the blog silence. I spent the entire morning downloading old stuff from my Gmail account and saving stuff into organized archives. Then I spent the first part of the afternoon setting up various rules to process the mail I receive on my 15 email accounts and make it a bit more manageable.
Now, I just found out that Outlook imported my feeds without keeping them in their separate folders (i.e., “Monday’s reading”, “Tuesday’s reading”, etc.). I am not about to put up with that.
So… anyone know how to delete 400+ feeds all at once from Outlook 2007?
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Well, that makes me glad I have Outlook 2003 instead. No - sorry I can’t help… I take it you can’t highlight a bunch and then hit delete… I thought not.
I use Feed Demon for my feed reader - I like it separate, but that’s just me. Good luck.
I just got upgraded to the entire 2007 suite at work. I also hate it. Word and Excel are NIGHTMARISH and there’s no way to go to “classic view” that I’ve yet found. As for Outlook? It doesn’t remember my settings, it doesn’t remember my company addressbook, and it’s created three different sets of archive folders for easy losing of e-mails.
All I wanted was a new video card. I’d've been happy with the five-year-old machine under my desk. Instead, I get this.
And the sound card STILL doesn’t work! ARGH!
Anyway, good luck.
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Got the problem fixed. And, Teresa, you guessed right: it involved clicking “delete” then assuring it that “Yes” I was sure I meant to click delete 400+ times.
I use FeedDemon, too. Love that program!
Wow - I can’t believe it let you do it that easily. Heh. I figured there would be multiple hoops and all that. I’m glad you got at least part of it to work for you.
Well, my wrist and left index finger certainly didn’t feel like it was “easy”. Glad to have my feeds out of there, though.
I’ve finally figured out how to minimize the Microsoft Ribbon. Hate that thing! Now if I could just get it to actually process my “rules” reliably. *sigh*
Oh hell I’m still using Outlook 2000! It’s hard to believe I’ve been using it for 7 years and still don’t have any compelling need to upgrade. I guess when the time finally comes I’ll simply zip my outlook archives into one megafile and start afresh with a new email client, like Thunderbird.
I made the switch because I like my mail to get automatically sorted into different folders, which Gmail doesn’t do. (And I don’t consider all that filter application crap to really be that efficient.) I’d hoped Outlook’s Junk Mail filters would be of some use, but I’m really beginning to wonder.
May have to check out Thunderbird.
Actually, 2000 does that for me just fine as well.
I miss the days when Pegasus E-Mail was hot and Eudora made all the women want you for being so cool.
Odd, I don’t recall ever being turned on simply because a guy had installed Eudora.
Doom, yes. Eudora, nah.
Well the geek girls at my old alma mater thought it was sexy, so nyah.
My biggest problem with Thunderbird (unless they’ve fixed it) is the annoying habit it had of adding any text attachment to the end of an email whenever I tried to reply. This is really really bad if you have a LARGE .txt attachment. The only way I could get it to quit was to create a new email or delete the attachment. Sheesh. (this was a huge problem with my work email not personal email)
I use Cloudmark with my Outlook for Spam. Yeah, I had to pay for it - but so far it’s worked well. Then again I would be willing to bet I get far less spam than you do Kate. I never did figure out Thunderbird’s spam filter - I couldn’t make it work for me even though so many praised it to the skies. *sigh* But so far Cloudmark has made my life much easier. (knock wood)
Well, aside from still getting duplicates and the way Outlook doesn’t always process my rules sending different stuff into different folders, I’ve at least figured it out sufficiently to read email and respond.
I never could get Thunderbird to work correctly for me in the past, but I see they’ve revamped it. Maybe I’ll give it a try over the weekend — after my brain recovers from this last effort.
I hate change.
Say I download my gmail to my Outlook (yes I do this) a certain set of people I want to go to a different inbox. Soooo, I have to say: all gmail email goes to the gmail folder EXCEPT if it’s from… and list those who go to a different folder. That’s the only way I’ve found to do it. Even if you list the other rule before the gmail rule. But if you put the exception into the original rule, you’ll cut out the dupes. A PITA - but it works.
Drat - nearly forgot to add - that sometimes the order of the rules does matter and that might be causing you a problem with the folders the messages end up in…
(apparently I’m having trouble typing after 2 glasses of wine. ha!)
That’s kind of what I’m trying to do, too. I’ve got all of the rules working just fine except for the comments coming from here. For some reason I keep getting duplicates of them. I’ve added the “stop processing” thing suggested on one site, but it keeps happening.
It’s driving me nuts. NUTS, I tell ya!