On 5/17/02 9:07 PM, "Jan Martel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I thought this would work, but unless I'm missing something, it doesn't seem > like it will. I have a list of contacts in a category. Some of them are > flagged, some aren't. I wanted to print a list with names, phone numbers and > emails, both for the flagged subset and the whole category. I thought a > custom view would work. So I created two custom views, one all, one flagged. > Chose the columns I wanted. Everything is perfect on the screen. But I want > to print it, and I can't figure out how to. When I do "print" it offers to > print as a phone list or as an address book list - that's not what I want, I > want a list that looks just like what's on the screen! Think about that for a moment. The screen has everything neatly in columns. the longer the text gets for each column, the more the screen squashes the text until, eventually, it truncates it. All that is very complicated, and much harder to do in printing where you can't squash to nearly the same extent or it would be totally unreadable. Furthermore. even just getting the columns means being able to implement something like a Word Table. Entourage is not set up for that. I did a very elaborate script Print Tasks List to do just that for tasks printing. i could do something similar for contacts, but it's not really necessary because of what follows below. > I'd even be willing > to export the contacts on the list and import them into Word and print > there, although it seems like a stupid waste of time, but I can't find out > how to export just the contacts in the custom view. I even went to Word to > see if I could use the data merge there, but when you try to import from the > address book, you can't limit by category. What am I missing? You were too impatient. if you do a Data Merge creating Catalog, the, at the bottom, press Query Options. You will be able to select by category, by specific selection of contacts, or both together. (This is only in Word X - in 2001, use my much cruder Address Book List script.) When assembling the fields, don't use "Address" : it inserts carriage returns as in an envelope, use the separate Street, City, etc, fields, separated by whatever spacing, tabs, commas etc, you want. I recommend using two carriage returns after entering all fields so you get some spacing between items (It doesn't use you Normal style's space after.) It's really quite wonderful, I think you'll find. You can use the same Query Options for Envelopes, Mailing Labels, etc. It has made my Office for office script suite unnecessary in Office X - and is a lot nicer, I think. >I can't > believe that it isn't possible to print a list of contacts formatted as I > want it. I did try Help, which didn't (help, that is). > It's not in there? Are you sure? -- Paul Berkowitz -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
