Update: Open Contact Name E 1.1 script

[Paul Berkowitz]

Title: Update: Open Contact Name E 1.1 script

I have just posted Open Contact Name E 1.1  at

AppleScripts for Entourage & Outlook Express
at  <http://homepage.mac.com/berkowit28/ >


It will also be appearing on the new AppleScript Central site soon.


Open Contact Name E 1.1

New in v 1.1:
� If you make no text selection, but you have a received message selected in the message pane, you will be asked if you want to open the contact of the sender, or else enter some letters of another contact's name. (In other words, it’s a quick way to open the contact of the sender of an email, without increasing the steps to open a different contact even if there is a received message open in the front).

� If there is no contact corresponding to the name or email address you select or enter, or of the sender of a selected message, you are asked if you want to make a new contact for this person. If so, it will enter the information provided (first name, last name and/or email address) in a new contact which is then opened for you so you can add more information. If not, you can choose to enter a different name or email address.

� It copes with a name selected with quote marks around it ("John Smith"), as often appears in attribution lines.

Open Contact Name E 1.1 is an alternative to the "Open Contact" script applet by David Cortright which is available on the Microsoft MacTopia website (and to which I also contributed in a minor way). It operates from within Entourage and can be even faster at opening a contact window, since you have a few alternatives including just double-clicking someone's name:

1) Just select a contact's name, or just part of it, in any text window in Entourage – a message, a note, an event or task window, or even a contact's name as an event title in the Calendar – and press option-command-O (the letter "O" for open, not zero) or select the script in the menu. Boom – the contact opens.

2) Select any email address (default or otherwise) of one of your contacts in any text window (with or without < > signs) in Entourage, and press option-O or select the script in the menu. Same thing.

3) Press option-command-O or select the script in the menu with no text selected. (It's OK if a message or a folder or a custom view is selected in the main Entourage window, or the Calendar is open, or whatever.) A box comes up in which to type a few letters of a contact's first or last name. Press OK, and the contact window opens up. If you've got more than one contact which begins with those letters you get a choice of contacts to select.

4), 5)  Open the contact of the sender of a received message, or make a new contact, as described in “New in v1.1” above.

Requirements: Microsoft Entourage

Author: Paul Berkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>



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Paul Berkowitz