I'm a Graphic Designer so I rarely use Word or Excel except for very, very basic tasks, such as copying and pasting text into desktop publishing programs. So I can't comment too much about those programs. The one application I use day in and day out all day long is Entourage.
1. Can't be programmed to accept my company's address book automatically. I have to enter the person's address in order for it to be saved.
2. If you accidentally have the wrong address typed in, well, it saves it anyway and eventually you have a list of wrong addresses to choose from your list of correct addresses. I haven't had the time to figure out how to delete addresses.
3. Tasks? Projects? Clutter tools. I never use them. Don't have the time to figure them out. Don't want to. I actually tried to utilize the Projects wizard and after spending xx minutes setting it up, I had this "That's it?!?" feeling; I didn't find it helpful or useful or intuitive at all. I'll do better to jot project notes on a piece of paper.
By far my biggest gripe is that Entourage makes EVERYTHING an ordeal to set up. I'm NOT a programmer, I don't think like a programmer. I don't have time to spend PROGRAMMING functions that should be built in.
For instance, Entourage does NOT have a basic out of office reply function! To use OoF you have to go to Tools, then Rules, then figure out which specific set of actions go together and in what order and even then it doesn't work. I had to GOOGLE for help because there is nothing about Out of Office reply in the Entourage Help section and the steps I followed based on the directions here: http://homepage.mac.com/barryw/weblog/files/category-6.html weren't even available!! I was flabbergasted and disgusted.
How could they make a function as basic and necessary as Out of Office reply so impossible to figure out or even find? Microsoft is just a huge, lumbering, programmer-minded troll and I can't stand it anymore. If this suite wasn't forced upon my by my office I'd NEVER use it.Get more detail about Microsoft Office X for Mac Upgrade.
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