>I have MSDN so I installed "Office 2003 Professional Enterprise" because
>1) it was there;
>2) Outlook 2003 was said to be a vast improvement.
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>I agree that Outlook 2003 *is* much more utilitarian in both its general layout and some of its functionality......
>3) It also 'blocks' temporarily certain parts of messages that come in HTML format. The way to unblock them is said to be there but the instructions are unclear at best.

You've probably found out by now that there's a gray bar across the top of the message that says "Click here to download pictures." As far as I know, some malware is active even in the preview pane in HTML email and not downloading the pictures is supposed to block it. This allows you to safely view messages in the preview pane without activating any malware.

>...Word's Help also come from the Internet! Not a bad idea in some respects, but though I'm on a DSL service I've had 30-60 seconds waits for it to come up. initially I thought that I had a hung system with a bad Help file and only learned differently by accident. In my opinion the wait ain't worth the potential benefit.

I also don't like waiting for the Help to come up. I suppose this allows us to always have the latest Help. I haven't ever tried Help when not connected to the Internet so I don't even know what happens in that circumstance.