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Is anyone else having difficulty with hotmail
My e-mail account is a hotmail account. It has recently been updated. I won't say improved because it's dreadful. I can't open any attachments in word. It used to open them directly in word but now it opens them in the e-mail bit and you can't put it into word unless you are using Word 2010 - the new version. Is anyone else having this problem. I have to click the 'edit the text' button, then it goes to something called skydrive. I then copy and paste it into word. The formatting is all cock-eyed, so I have to re-format before I can save it as a word file. Am I doing something wrong? Why is that whenever anythings is 'improved' it's ten times worse?
Anyone have a solution?
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I've got one to look at so I'll go and do it now and see what happens, and get back to you.
But then again, I think MSN on a whole has failed with an error today. My Windows Live Messenger has announced a problem, so it might be why.
I can't open anything. I do like it's improvements on the look, but if I can't open documents, none of my writing will be done any time soon.
But I have to say it is a pain if the message is one of a long chain- I had to click on something at the top to see these other messages, and then on the individual messages to read them, can't just scroll down the page and read as I go....grrrr.
All I know is if it hasn't been sorted out in two weeks time I am going to be furious.
However, I did manage to open an attachment on my PC from WW (bragging here - they've just accepted one of my stories). I had no problem with that. I think the problem may be that Microsoft no longer support Office 97. I'm loathe to update this as I'm so used to using it and I don't want to lose all my old stuff. Isn't progress hell?
Congratulations, Casey!!!!
It is making it difficult to do simple things- not good.
I don't like the new hotmail either but what can we do about it?
We'll see what happens when someone else sends me one!
It lets me log into new Hotmail on my phone as well.
Must be ex IT bod luck :D
Other than that, it may just be that there are initial gremlins in the new Hotmail that will hopefully be ironed out soon.
My hubby uses hotmail and he was steaming cos he couldn't WRITE any emails today!
I had no probs. All my hotmail messages were delivered, as were all my other mails.
Don't think it's a browser issue, tis Microsoft doing their usual of getting a product pour before it is completely bug tested! They admit that themselves.
BTW I use safari on a PC not a mac and it's great. HUb uses Chrome, but I find that limiting. Lots of things I can do in safari or IE I can't do in Chrome
But to widen your point you are right, there are so many options out there, as with everything on the net, that you can pick and chose and personalise it all to your own needs.
Last night I didn't have the show full message line so wasn't able to see all of a shop newsletter, but that is now available.
So hopefully further improvements will be made.