As a student who uses Outlook to keep myself organised, it would be convient
if Outlook came with a student timetable and tasks manager - even just for
the academic editions of the software. Essentially, I'd like to have a less
clumsy way of managing a very repetive two-week timetable in the Outlook
Calendar than having to use reccurances - these don't take into account
school terms or holidays, athletic days, etc. I'm not sure what Microsft
Student offers, but that's a fair bit of money for software that overlaps a
lot of the functionality of the Office 2003 Pro (Academic) software that I
have. I also realise that perhaps students aren't spefically the target
market for Outlook, but many students would use Outlook as I do (especially
with Microsoft's Student and Teacher Editions) and find it that feature
extremely convientient and rewarding for the outlay of the software. I'm sure
it would come in handy for the majority of Outlook users who (I'd have to
imagine) would live by routine, anyway.

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Academic versions of Office are no different from other versions except for
their license and pricing.

And since they are students, wouldn't it make sense to give this as an
assignment to program a custom view and populate it as per your request?
Best solution wins a copy of Microsoft Student?


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After furious head scratching, thomas_p asked:

| As a student who uses Outlook to keep myself organised, it would be
| convient if Outlook came with a student timetable and tasks manager -
| even just for the academic editions of the software. Essentially, I'd
| like to have a less clumsy way of managing a very repetive two-week
| timetable in the Outlook Calendar than having to use reccurances -
| these don't take into account school terms or holidays, athletic
| days, etc. I'm not sure what Microsft Student offers, but that's a
| fair bit of money for software that overlaps a lot of the
| functionality of the Office 2003 Pro (Academic) software that I have.
| I also realise that perhaps students aren't spefically the target
| market for Outlook, but many students would use Outlook as I do
| (especially with Microsoft's Student and Teacher Editions) and find
| it that feature extremely convientient and rewarding for the outlay
| of the software. I'm sure it would come in handy for the majority of
| Outlook users who (I'd have to imagine) would live by routine,
| anyway.
|
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Thanks for your reply. You have a point, but I lack the time to sit down and
figure that out; and it would probably end up being a very inelegant solution
anyway. I was thinking more in terms of a dialog box that let you input a
timetable/weekly routine for alternating weeks, able to be specifically
geared to certain groups, like students. That said, I understand if it does
not have merit from a corporate/marketability/developer's point of view.

On the topic of custom views, do you know of any examples available online
that I could look at? Also, for innterest's sake, does MS Student have the
functionality I'm talking about?

Thanks once more.

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

Academic versions of Office are no different from other versions except for
their license and pricing.

And since they are students, wouldn't it make sense to give this as an
assignment to program a custom view and populate it as per your request?
Best solution wins a copy of Microsoft Student?


--�
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
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After furious head scratching, thomas_p asked:

| As a student who uses Outlook to keep myself organised, it would be
| convient if Outlook came with a student timetable and tasks manager -
| even just for the academic editions of the software. Essentially, I'd
| like to have a less clumsy way of managing a very repetive two-week
| timetable in the Outlook Calendar than having to use reccurances -
| these don't take into account school terms or holidays, athletic
| days, etc. I'm not sure what Microsft Student offers, but that's a
| fair bit of money for software that overlaps a lot of the
| functionality of the Office 2003 Pro (Academic) software that I have.
| I also realise that perhaps students aren't spefically the target
| market for Outlook, but many students would use Outlook as I do
| (especially with Microsoft's Student and Teacher Editions) and find
| it that feature extremely convientient and rewarding for the outlay
| of the software. I'm sure it would come in handy for the majority of
| Outlook users who (I'd have to imagine) would live by routine,
| anyway.
|
| ----------------
| This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
| suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click
| the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the
| button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft
| Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane.
|
|
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