The dumbest thing Microsoft ever did.

The dumbest thing Microsoft ever did was remove the "Organize" feature in Outlook and use "Conditional Formatting" to accomplish the same thing.

What happened to the organize feature? >

To be perfectly honest, it never belonged under "Organize," either. Coloring an email should be a filter, just like marking it read, unread, important, unimportant, etc.

So this is a double cluster.

It takes five clicks in three different windows just to get to the place where I can begin to define the condition to color an email subject line.

What's so hard about letting me right-click and choose to color by subject, sender, etc?

I don't want to move it or forward it or categorize it, I just want to color it, which just about every other installed email client lets you do.

[2013-09-13]

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Free Awesomeness

Did you know you can edit PDFs with the free/open source LibreOffice?

Lots of online forms (especially government) require you to use the free Adobe Acrobat Reader, but the free reader won’t let you save your edits. You can’t fill forms with LibreOffice, but you can edit and save them.

Learn how to edit PDF documents with LibreOffice Draw >

Get the free LibreOffice >

(a MS-compatible alternative to Microsoft Office)

Another option is to fill out the form, screen capture your scrolling window, then OCR the image.

Or you can pay $279 at Amazon for it. So much for the liberation promised by a cross-platform portable document format.

[2013-09-13]

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