Re: Anyone here *really* using Entourage Projects?

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Hi. Well, I don't know if "ecstatic" or "passionate" are the words I'd
use, but I have to give Microsoft straight-A's for both Entourage and
Project. Like many self-employed people who used to do dot-com
consulting full-time, I now do a number of totally different kinds of
projects. These include freelance trade-journal writing, business
consulting, engineering consulting and I'm also working on work of
historical fiction. Prior to buying MSO2004 (which I had to do because
a client insisted on native Excel format), I was using a number of very
good-- but not integrated-- apps to keep track of everything. And it's
very easy to keep using most of my indispensible apps (e.g. CopyWrite
and SuperNoteCard) right along with Projects via links.

Frankly, I switched to a Mac to get away from all things Microsoft and
had no intention of using anything but Excel (and Word and PPT when I
absolutely *had* to), but I figured I might as well use Entourage Mail,
Contacts and Calendar rather than pay to upgrade my Eudora (and I've
never like iCal and Address Book). Migration was relatively painless
(with the help of some people on this forum) and everything worked;
then I got a bit curious about the little briefcase icon.

I started using Project regularly about a month ago, so I may not be
using it to my best advantage-- yet-- but I must say it's been easy to
create projects for everything I do and the fact that they're
automatically kept up to date (w/emails, particularly) is wonderful. I
can dive in at any time and get a snapshot of what's going on, quickly
add task or answer an email, then jump out. This is particularly
useful for group work in which I'm often very active for a day or two,
then away from it for a few weeks, then back again.

I'll be interested to see how others use Projects, as well.

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