Office 2003 looks pretty, to be sure.
And Outlook 2003 is more than pretty, it's got a much more useful standard screen setup.

Now when I install an Office suite I expect things to WORK pretty-much as they did before.
I've discussed some installation 'surprises' in the CHATTER forum but I thought here would be a more productive place day-to-day usage stuff.

My first has to do with OutLook and creating a new e-mail...
It (now) defaults to using Word2003 as the message text area.
I didn't mind that, figuring that I'd just set THIS use of Word2003 to a screen size similar to the old one and that would be that.
Well, it turned out that doing so was a bit of a drag because, for whatever reason, the 'both ways arrow' was not available by mouse-hovering over the lower-right corner. Nor could I get the 'horizontal arrow' by hovering over the right border, nor the 'vertical arrow' by hovering over the bottom border.
I went to the top, moved the title bar up a bit (beyond the screen edge) and then was able to get a vertical arrow at the bottom. The 'both ways arrow' also becaume available at that point.
So I fixed the window at the size/position that I wanted and proceeded to write a coupla mails and all was well with the world.
Later I started Word 2003 and, lo and behold, the !#$!#%!$!^!$ window opened up exactly where I had set it for OutLook!
No hardship... just clicked on the maximize button. Finished my document and closed Word 2003.
Later, back to an e-mail and there it was again, FULL SCREEN. Same trouble getting back to the smaller screen **I LIKE** and prefer for e-mails.

What's up with that. Does MS think that we all want all usages of a facility to be the same way (like they always have with IE)???? If so, aren't they a bit dumb to think so?

Does anyone know what I have to do - and of course I feel I have already had to do too much - to make it so that Word opens full screen for me and OutLook New Mail opens in a smaller window at a location of my choosing.

Does MS do this to aggravate just me or doe they get a whole lot of us with these UNCALLEDFOR manoeuvres????

Thanks
Jim