On 6/9/02 23:30, Julian Vrieslander wrote: >> True, but we're not talking about an open window, just the link. Say, for >> example, you go to MacTopia and find the link for the Office X SR1 updater; >> you don't want to visit that page, just include the link in an email. The >> previous CM would allow you to control-click on that link and put it into an >> email message, without having to actually load the page or add it to your >> favorites. > > I don't know of any way to script IE to pull the URL out of an unloaded > link. Absent that, here are a couple of workarounds. > > You could control-click the link in IE to bring up the contextual menu, and > select the "Copy link to clipboard" item. Then switch to Entourage, open a > new message window and paste the link. You could write a simple script to > automate the switch/open/paste and bind that script to a hot key. > > Alternate idea: command-click the link in IE to open it in a new window, and > hit command-period to cancel the page loading (if you don't want to wait for > it to finish). The URL and page title will still be available on the > partially loaded page. Then use the script I posted earlier to pop open a > new message window in Entourage, with the URL in the body. Or use the IE > "send link" feature.
Yes, those are all workarounds, but the point was that the original poster missed the functionality of being to open a new message in Entourage by control-clicking on a link in IE and having the link already be in the message. (I miss it, too.) Any other method requires multiple steps. I'm lazy, I guess <G>. George -- George Clark - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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/>
