Unhandled Perception

Post a comment with any must have Outlook 2010 addins.  What makes your life easier and takes advantage of the power of Outlook 2010.

(please only post addins specific to Outlook 2010)

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

Outlook 2010 looked good enough for me to upgrade, finally, away from Office 2003.  The experience so far has been positive.  Little bit of growing pains, can you say ribbons, but overall a very good experience so far.

Here’s the few features that I like:

• Quick Parts – Quick Parts are pieces of text that you store to later reuse in your email.  As your typing your email you can easily and quickly insert a standard piece of text by selecting the Quick Part.  What makes this even more powerful is as you’re typing you can start typing the Quick Parts name to insert it without the need to select from the toolbar. (tutorial: Living with Outlook 2010: Quick Parts)
• Signatures - Simple, basic, makes sense, yet it took this long to work this way.  Signatures are now a recognized block of text within the email.  Switch the Send From account and your signature updates.  Select a new signature from the toolbar and the signature block updates.  This little enhancement along saves me when sending emails – I have 9 email account, with 9 signatures.  No more sending the wrong signature.
• Conversations - Emails can now be grouped by a conversation.  Its not perfect, looks at the subject line to determine a conversation.  Still a decent feature.
• Look and feel – Outlook 2010 just feels better.

PST Data Structure View Tool (PSTViewTool) is a tool supporting the PST file format documentation effort. It allows the user to browse the internal structures of a PST file.

Developers can now develop tools to directly interact with Outlook data files.  If you’re looking for more information on working with Outlook data files check out the interoperability press release.

Link: http://pstviewtool.codeplex.com/

Just read this:

It’s all too common to drown in email every day. Luckily, Microsoft® Outlook® 2010 gives you tools you need to stay on top of practically everything. Save valuable inbox space with improved email conversation tracking and management. Compress long e-mail threads into a few conversations that can be categorized, filed, ignored, or cleaned up with a few clicks. From advanced email organization and search to a completely redesigned look, Outlook 2010 provides you with a world-class experience to stay productive and stay in touch with all of your networks.

That makes me interested. Might just get me to upgrade.