Quite an intriguing solution. In effect, you've turned a contact record into a mini-group...
On or near 11/3/03 12:59 AM, William O'Brien at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed: > Perfect! > > With the Concatenate function in Excel, it's pretty easy to put the > addresses together before importing. > > Thanks! > > Bill > >> On 03/11/03 16:46 +0900 (JST), "William O'Brien" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Diane. >>> >>> Yes, I do know these people want multiple messages. Perhaps I should >>> have clarified further. My problem arises from this: >>> >>> I am a teacher and my current grading program does not yet allow me >>> to email students and parents directly from it. When I send a note >>> or a progress report to a student, I (and the parents) want a copy to >>> go to the parents as well. >>> >>> At the start of the school year, when I import the student and parent >>> email addresses into Entourage, >>> I import the addresses as Contacts under the students' names. In my >>> old email program (Eudora), each Contact would expand to multiple >>> addresses. >> >> [etc.] >> >> Thinking back to the olden days when I would enter multiple addresses in the >> To field manually, separated by commas, I just tried doing that with my own >> Entourage address book entry. I entered two distinct addresses, separated by >> a comma, in a single email address field within my entry. I then a message >> to myself at this double address and, sure enough, got back two copies, one >> at each address. >> >> If this is not just a fluke, you may be able to do the same thing with your >> student and parent addresses. Of course, you'll first have to manually cut >> and paste the parent addresses into the same field as the student address >> for each of your students (and not forget to put a comma between them), >> which will be a chore . . . >> >> FWIW >> >> -- >> Jeremy Whipple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Setagaya-ku, Tokyo >> >> -- >> 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/> -- Microsoft MVP for Entourage/OE/Word (MVPs are volunteers) Allen Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Entourage FAQ site: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> AppleScripts for Outlook Express and Entourage: <http://members.thinkaccess.net/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/Scripts/> Entourage Help Pages: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> -- 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/>
