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George Forum typed:
Looks like others are having the same crash course in outlook as I am
having and not many seem to know what is going on. Crash and burn
this MS crap and get the free stuff and I'll give away this useless
SW and post the code and see if anyone else wants free what I paid
good money for. Why the hell should I spend any more of my time on
this when I already tossed my money down the toilet.

Now that you've gone and made new friends.....you seem to be able to use
Outlook Express, so clearly something is working.

This is a public newsgroup, "staffed" by volunteers, ordinary folk, Joe
Shmoes like myself. If you have a technical question, ask it. If you don't
get a reply in a few days, post a new message (might include "REPOST" in the
subject line) and rephrase/provide more detail, as it's likely nobody knows
what your question means as you wrote it originally. Be patient, be polite,
and you will get a lot of useful--and *free*--tech support in here. Ranting
helps nobody, and probably won't fix whatever problem you have on your
computer, either.

That said, if you don't wish to use Microsoft's software, simply stop using
it. Most people do not have the (unspecified) problems you seem to be having
in using Outlook.