Thanks for the info Paul. You have such an eloquent way of saying "Bill,
get off you duff and devote some more resources to the excellent Macintosh
team." I guess we should be happy that we can get to the address book at
all, but being good citizens we will continually want more. :-)
I have been mostly a silent observer on the list since it started and I do
enjoy your skill and wit and that of the other regular contributors here.
Wishing all a Happy Holidays.
Jim
> From: Paul Berkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 13:29:21 -0800
> Subject: Re: Accessing the Address Book from Word
>
> 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.)
>
> --
> Paul Berkowitz
>
>
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