On or near 12/7/00 8:36 PM, Etienne Michaud at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
observed:
> Hi group!
>
> I just convinced myself today to finally convert from OE and the Palm
> desktop to Entourage, after having used the other components of Office 2001
> for a couple weeks and reading this list for quite a while.
Welcome aboard.
> I didn't know I was in for such a shock! Nice app, and I'm sure I'll grow to
> love it, but there are a couple features I can't seem to get to work and I'm
> seeking assistance from the list.
>
> First, I'm trying to get a feature equivalent to the auto complete of the
> city, state and country fields in the contacts window on the Palm desktop.
> I've tried defining auto text entries in Word but they don't seem to apply
> to the text I'm typing in the Entourage address book. All my contact names
> from Entourage were added as auto text entries in word though. I'm not sure
> I'm too crazy about that, but time will tell if it serve any purpose.
> I really liked the way the Palm Desktop had different auto complete lists
> depending on the field I was typing in. Any reason Entourage didn't copy
> that behavior?.
>
I don't believe there is any distinct auto complete in the city, state or
country fields. I don't know why that is. I haven't missed it myself, but I
do not make many manual entries. Most of my contacts come from another
source in text files I can import.
> Also, I now realize that my little rant in another thread about keyboard
> shortcuts using [ and ] not working on my non-US keyboard is now turning
> into a slight usability issue: I don't see an UI widget to accomplish what
> the Next and Previous items in the view menu do and . Any way I could use a
> script to trigger those actions and bind a different shortcut to that
> script?
Such a script would be tricky given the current scripting interface; there
is no simple way (apart from a third-party scripting addition) to trigger
menu actions, and there is no scripting access to "Next" and "Previous"
commands, which change what they do depending on what is displayed on the
screen. For instance, "Next" with the calendar up will move to the next
day/week/month; with a folder of messages, to the next message. So either
the script needs to invoke the menu item itself, or the script would have to
be very clever at detecting the context of the command.
If you are willing for a third party addtion to be used, "Puppet Menu" in
Akua Sweets would do the trick. With this caveat; it has to be the final
action in the script or it won't work. Assigning keystrokes to scripts is as
easy as appending a few characters to the script's file name, e.g., " \m9"
would assign "Command-9" as the script's shortcut.
To get you started, here's a script for "Next", using Puppet Menu (make sure
you put Akua Sweets into the Scripting Additions folder in the System folder
before trying this):
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
activate
try
puppet menu {"View", "Next"}
on error
beep
end try
end tell
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Peace,
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A Mac family since 1984 <http://home.earthlink.net/~allenwatson/>
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