On 12/27/00 12:53 PM, "Jim Colgate" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Since I just added a second identity to Entourage and I know identities
> cannot share address books, I was wondering how you selected which address
> book you wanted in Word. So far I have not found anything in Word for
> selecting a desired address book. It appears that you get the address book
> of the last identity that used Entourage prior to quitting.
>
> Is there any way to select the desired address book from within Word?
I guess that's why you can't switch identities with another Office app
open. That must be a main reason, anyway.
I'd write you a script to do this, but (wait for it) trying to switch
identities by applescript crashes Entourage, sometimes the whole computer. I
was really hoping they'd fix this soon, but it looks like it will still be
quite a while. This is really a shame.
I've been delving into Word recently. Let's not forget that until 2001 the
most important thing MS was doing over there was making Word and Excel Mac
compatible with the Windows versions. Not to put too high a claim for this,
that's what may have saved Apple Computer, Inc. If not for businesses being
able to let employees use Macs and still exchange files with colleagues,
inside the office and out, using Word for Windows, every business would
probably have had to ditch all their Macs a long time ago. Now in Office
2001, they're starting to introduce Mac-only things in Word, since Entourage
exists only in the Mac version of Office. I know that Word Windows accesses
an Address Book (from Outlook or Outlook Express, I'm not certain), but even
so, they now need a lot more Entourage-Word integration on the Mac side than
will ever be on the Windows side. I wonder how many man-hours the MS Word
Mac people will be devoting to this.
I'd like to help fill some of the gaps temporarily with scripts, if i can
improve my Visual Basic scripting, which is needed on the Word side. I hope
we can count on the Entourage developers to fix that crash on switching
identities, and to Jud and David to urge the Word supremos to access
switching identities even without scripts at some point.
When they fix that crashing bug, this will be the first script I do. Maybe
if more people asked for this, they will give it a higher priority.
Apparently, the Microsoft managers in Redmond (i.e. I'm not talking about
our supportive MBU developers and managers like Jud, David and Dan) don't
give too high a priority to AppleScript. Perhaps if someone explained to
them that a few of us scripters are able, thanks to Dan's implementation of
AppleScript in Entourage, to fill gaps that their own Word developers
haven't got around to, they might send more resources that way. But I
suppose that would only happen if people knew enough about the scripts
available that it actually helped persuade them to buy Office, which I can't
imagine has ever happened. Maybe if some of the journalists who review
Office tried out some scripts (I think we had one or two here around the
time Office 2001 was being released), it could make a difference. Or not.
Anyway, you'll be able to do this eventually. But not now. (That's twice
today.)
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Paul Berkowitz
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