On 12/16/01 8:19 AM, "Rick Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I already belong to more groups than I can keep up with, so if you could
> post more info, especially on avoiding the crash you mentioned, whenever
> it's convenient for you, I'd really appreciate it.
There's no point, really. If you're not going to attempt to do the VBA (and
as I said, I don't have time to learn about all this for you, just like you
don't have time to join a newsgroup), then the situation will never arise
for you. It's connected with bar codes; if you were to implement bar codes
in a VBA AutoText for turning a data source into mailing labels, and you
had more than 4 fields in the AutoText, you first have to turn off the
Default Bar Code property for Mailing Label object (which by rights should
have nothing to with this operation) or you crash in 2001. It's very
esoteric, but something I ran into in my Print Mailing Labels script - which
has the code for turning off the barcodes for the duration, then turning it
back on, so you can check it there if you know any VBA. It's commented in
the VB section of the script - right at the beginning and end of the
VBScript handler there. A tester for Word just wrote me this week, many
months after I reported this bug, to say that he'd tracked it down to the
"more than 4 fields" in AutoText, and it was fixed for Word X. Since you
said you did REALBasic scripting, I figured you'd be able to follow this,
since (I'm told) REALBasic is quite similar to Visual Basic.
What I suggested you ask at the newsgroup was how to do the formatting for
mailing labels, which I never learned because I wasn't doing that. I can't
help you with that, because I'd first have to study it myself in the VB
Editor Help, which you could do too, and by asking at the newsgroups. I
suggested the Word VBA newsgroup because it would save you a tremendous
amount of time and trouble to ask someone there who knows the answer. It
certainly helped me when I was working on my scripts. There are incredibly
smart and experienced Word and VBA gurus there. Why would you expect to find
an answer on an Entourage mailing list? But if you don't have time to ask a
question, OK. you'd rather i did for you, do you?
Someone just wrote here, you'll have noticed, with what sounds like a very
simple non-VBA solution. Again, for follow-up, if there's any more to it
than that, I'd suggest asking at this newsgroup (where they would also know
VBA angles if necessary):
microsoft.public.word.mailmerge.fields
you'll get an answer within a day. But if you don't have time for that, I
guess you'll have to flounder about for a lot longer.
>
> BTW, I use office 2001 most of the time, v. X occasionally. I'm disappointed
> that that Entourage 2001 and v. X can't share the same data, so I'm still
> using Entourage 2001 under Classic when in OS X.
>
I am releasing a set of scripts in a few days that will let you export and
import contacts, groups, calendar, tasks and notes between Entourage X and
2001 identities. (There are limitations, with workarounds, of 2001 events
and tasks because applescript isn't fully implemented there.) Messages you
can already share by dragging mail folders and/or individual messages to
your hard disk, then back into the other version of Entourage. It works
fine. (Even easier is using an IMAP account.)
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Paul Berkowitz
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