Now, if it is impractical to implement, I can understand that. But your solutions below are downright confusing.
Well, it turns out (off-list) that we were talking about different scripts! Hence the confusion. Mervyn wasn’t using my script at all, but the applet ‘Open Contact in Entourage’ (as his subject says) in the packet from the MacTopia site. David Cortright, the anonymous author, kindly added my name as a “contributor” in the script (thanks, David) because I had made a few corrections to it in the Entourage beta process, so it seems Mervyn thought I was the one to write to about it (thanks, David!).
That applet is handy for opening Entourage directly to a contact, if E is closed. Since I always have E open, I wrote my own script which is more versatile in finding a contact from a message you just received, or any text selected anywhere, called Open Contact Name E, now at v1.1. That’s the one I thought Mervyn was referring to. Actually, when I’m in Entourage, I usually forget all about my own script and just go to the Address Book, so I couldn’t even remember how my script works, and was more than willing to believe it had the problems Mervyn was describing (I don’t think it does, now).
Anyway, all sorted out now, I think. And I think David was really onto something: you really only need a script like that if Entourage is closed (and maybe Office QuickView is handy there too). When it’s open, it’s probably more intuitive just to go to the Address Book, as I do, than to use a script.
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Paul Berkowitz
