On 12/30/01 12:29 PM, "Jake Ludington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Coming from Outlook on Windows, I was used to being able to control my
> signature so that it was only appended to new messages. Is there any way to
> do this in Entourage, without having the signature also append to every
> reply?
>
What a peculiar idea! Why would you want your signature only on new
messages? Oh - I get it. On Windows email clients generally, and Outlook in
particular, the default is to reply at the top with enormous strings of the
whole previous discussion at the bottom. Why see the signature 17 times?
Right.
On the Mac, the tradition is to reply at the bottom by default. That
encourages you to select the small bits of the original to quote. You may
not realize it, but on virtually all Mac email clients, you can select just
a paragraph or so of the original, click reply, and only that selected bit
gets quoted. I understand that very few Windows clients can do this, which
is amazing. It encourages efficiency and clarity, and you can always do it
the other way if you want.
What I suggest is that you keep the following script in your scripts folder.
Save it as
No Signature \moS
to use with the keyboard shortcut command-option-S. (Change the S to
something else if you want, or change the o to c for control and/or s for
shift.) here's the script:
---------------------
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
if class of window 1 is draft window then
set signature type of window 1 to none
end if
end tell
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Save that in Script Editor (in AppleScript folder of Applications folder in
OS X, where you are) as a Compiled Script (the default) , and save it to te
Entourage Script Menu Items folder in Microsoft User Data folder in
Documents folder of your User folder ("Home") in Users folder on your (OS X)
hard disk.
Then you just have to press option-command-S or whatever you assign, when
you bring your reply up, and your signature will disappear. you can't do
that on Windows either.
Alternately, use the following script to bring up a reply without the sig in
the first place. This one you could call
Reply No Signature \mcR
and call it by pressing command-control-R (not too many shortcuts available
with R in them).
----------------------
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
try
set theMsg to displayed message of window 1
if class of theMsg is not incoming message then
beep
return
end if
on error
beep
return
end try
set replyMsg to reply to theMsg
set signature type of replyMsg to none
end tell
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and then a second one for
Reply to All No Signature \mscR
with keyboard shortcut cmd-opt-shift-R instead of clicking Reply All
----------------------
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
try
set theMsg to displayed message of window 1
if class of theMsg is not incoming message then
beep
return
end if
on error
beep
return
end try
set replyMsg to reply to theMsg with reply to all
set signature type of replyMsg to none
end tell
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But with these last two scripts, you can't select to quote selectively. With
the first one, where you first do a normal reply then call the script to
make the signature disappear, you can. The reason why I supplied the last
two is that it's just possible (I haven't checked) that removing the
signature might possibly also remove what comes below it. I don't think so,
but if you're always going to reply with full quoted messages below, the
last two might be better.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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