On 10/19/00 6:09 AM, "Rick Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Several people on this list have become quite lucrative in their
> AppleScripts, and I wonder if I might suggest a few more that could be
> useful.
>
> 1) Delete Dupes: When I first set up Entourage and synced with my Palm PDA,
> I got quite a lot of duplicate entries in the address book. A script to
> look for entries with duplicate names and delete all but the newest one
> would be handy for new users--I've already spent hours deleting my dupes
> manually. Sure wish I knew more about AppleScript.
>
Well, I could do this, but two other people have said they're going to, so I
thought I'd let someone else do it for a change. If there isn't one in
existence by the end of the weekend, I'll do it.
> 2) Title Case: I import annually about 1200 addresses from a database
> maintained by the membership chairman of my organization. Here again, I
> could use the "delete dupes" script mentioned above. Most importantly,
> though, these addresses come in all caps, which I'd like to switch to lower
> case. I'm sure this can be easily done in AppleScript. Would this be useful
> for others as well?
I'll do that in the next hour or so.
>
> 3) Put email address in email address list: Entourage imported from my
> Excel database the home email addresses into the home phone list of
> Entourage. Can a script move it, in all 1200 records, to the email tab
> where it belongs?
I can move it from home phone address, or anywhere else, into an email
field, But they forgot to implement "home email" or "work email" as separate
properties. (email addresses are different from everything else in the
contact record, as far as applescript is concerned.) When I make it into an
email address, I believe it ends up by default as a Work email address, not
a Home email address. Nothing could be done about that. That would make it
easier, for you to change manually if you wanted to.
>
> 4) Fix Default Address: 99% of my addresses are home addresses, yet the
> work address is the default. A script to check for a home address and set
> it to the default, if found, would be very useful.
>
If you're talking about postal addresses, that's very easy. I can do that
one in the next 5 minutes. If you're talking about email addresses, it's
unfortunately impossible in this release. We've been told on the beta list
that they'll fix this for next time.
>
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