Tuesday, January 18, 2005
Usual oatmeal breakfast. Researched Outlook migration issues. Studied Outlook keyboard shortcuts. Notably, the Ctrl+Shift+I shortcut to jump to the Inbox doesn't seem to work for me at all. Ctrl+Shift+O works to jump to the Outbox, but then after pressing it no other keyboard shortcuts work except those in the menu and toolbars. In general, keyboard shortcuts in Outlook 2003 seem rather unreliable, but part of it might be because they seem to be modal—the currently active keyboard shortcuts change depending on what pane you're in or whether there's a message window open. For example, to view next and previous messages, it's either Alt+UpArrow/Alt+DownArrow or Ctrl+Comma/Ctrl+Period depending on whether a full mail message window has been opened. Why didn't they just make these identical? Yeesh! F6 works as expected to switch between window panes, but the focus indicator for the reading pane is so subtle I can hardly tell when it has the focus. Another problem is that when composing a message the Alt+S keyboard shortcut won't work unless the Send button is visible in the toolbar. If the window is resized smaller so as to cause that button to be hidden, Alt+S doesn't work. Staff meeting with Rob D. Resolved out of disk space issues for Chris's laptop, uninstalled bad Brother printer and scanner software and backed up the laptop, too. Helped James resolve a problem with network connectivity—Kraig K assisted with the workaround. Continued setup of the new server and study of Active Directory materials. Helped Ena with photos she needed to take of a bulletin board which arrived damaged and needs to get returned to the vendor. Very late lunch: spaghetti, corn off the cob, garlic bread, orange juice from the cafeteria. Chatted with Joan briefly about a BAD_ATTACHMENT error when a user sent an HTML e-mail message to the listserv—she hadn't heard of this error before, so we're chalking this up to the unreliability of HTML e-mail. Set up a custom MMC on the new server.