On or near 11/20/02 2:29 PM, William Lane at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:
> On 11/20/02 12:20 PM, "Allen Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> In Entourage v X, when the Address Book is on display and a contact is
>> selected, there is a "Duplicate Contact" option in the Edit menu. I'm not
>> sure this exists in E2001, but if it does, it could be used to simulate what
>> you describe. Just create a "template" contact, or several with qualifying
>> names like "Calgary template", with the recurring fields filled in. To
>> create a new contact, then, open the address book, type "Calgary" into the
>> quickfilter field to quickly locate your template, and select it. Type Cmd-D
>> for Duplicate Contact, and you have a new contact record with the recurring
>> fields prefilled.
>
>
> Well, this gets closer to what I'm looking for than the script (I think)
> BUT, it is still cumbersome. I have to select my 'template' from the list of
> all my addresses, duplicate it, then open the duplicate and edit it. Unless
> there is an easier way that I am missing?
>
Lazy, are we? Well, so am I; that's why I learned AppleScript. Try creating
that "Template" contact (in my example below the contact's Last name is
"Template" and first name is blank), and then compile this script in Script
Editor, store in Entourage Script Menu Items folder. To give it a keyboard
shortcut, append a suffix as described in Help under "Script Menu". For
example, Cmd-Option-C, name the script "New contact from Template\moC".
Here is the script:
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set newC to duplicate contact "Template"
open newC
end tell
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