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Unfortunate Icons
By Brian | June 4, 2009 | Share on Facebook
The Calendar view in Microsoft Outlook 2007 uses a clever set of icons to give the user key information about his/her meetings without opening each one. Recurring meetings, for instance, show up with curved arrows in the lower-right corner. If you modify a single instance of a recurring meeting, it puts a diagonal line through the arrows, which gives the unfortunate impression of a script “x”. Hence, you get meeting descriptions like this:
I assure you that opening the appointment is not nearly as exciting as the message above implies.
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