Re: script ideas

[Paul Berkowitz]

Title: Re: script ideas

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:

Waiting on Allen for this one at the moment. From his sudden quietness, I'm sure he's adapting all his OE scripts at the moment.
>
> 2) Title Case:
>
> 3) Put email address in email address list:
>
> 4) Fix Default Address:


All done. Instead of posting them here, since they’re long, I’ve posted the finished scripts at my mac.com website (url below). If you find any problems, please let me know off-list. The Fix Email Phone Fields script needed another fix itself since I last posted it, so don’t use that version. Please go to the website and get the improved version.

E -  AppleScripts for Entourage
at <http://homepage.mac.com/berkowit28/>


Fix Email Phone Fields E

Importing contacts will sometimes do odd things like putting email addresses into phone fields in Entourage instead of into an email field. This script will let you put that right for all of them at once. You select which is the faulty phone field in a list dialog, and the script takes care of it. You can select contacts and/or groups, or apply the fix to the whole Address Book.


Set Default Postal Address E

Importing contacts into Entourage often results in a blanket designation for the default postal address (usually “Work”, even if there is no Work address but just a Home address.) This script will let you switch the designation en masse from Work to Home, or vice versa, for all contacts and/or group members of groups selected in the Address Book before you run the script – or for the whole Address Book if you wish.


Title Case for Addresses E

Importing contacts into Entourage often results in undesirable formatting of names and addresses, making it useless for mail merges in Word, for example. This script will set all first names, last names, titles, job titles, company and department fields, as well as street addresses and city of both Home and Work postal addresses to Title Case. (Suffix, state and country are left alone because of the modern style of using upper-case letters without punctuation for these.) Hyphenated words are also capitalized following the hyphen, but any other mid-word punctuation is ignored. (So you’ll have to fix P.O. Box designations and names like McCoy.)


--
Paul Berkowitz