set tasksNote to make new note with properties {name:"Tasks Note - " & today, text:styled text, content:notesText}
Entourage AppleScript has no styled text or HTML features. Entourage does not implement the text suite, there is no 'text' property of a note, you can't do it. And you should remove text:styled text, from the line above since it's meaningless here. I've been asking for styled text to be implemented for about 5 years, since OE 4.5. I was given very clear indications that it would never happen - too hard or something. Maybe if they ever change the text engine.
After opening the note, you might experiment with doing some formatting by doing GUI scripting using the Format menu, but you could never do that after the fact for this longlist of items. You'll have to settle for putting the name of each task in upper case:
Thanks, Paul. Just knowing that it can’t be done makes it seem a lot less upsetting than thinking that I was merely incapable of figuring it out myself.
Entourage seems to encourage love-hate relationships, if it is possible to have a relationship with software. To-do’s are very important to me, and I’ve tried to stay with E’rage because it syncs so well with my Palm. (Which, by the way, can do all sorts of tricks with To-do’s that E’rage cannot including great on-screen integration with the calendar.) It has so many essential features yet it always seems to lack something that would be really useful. Without the scripts that you and others have written to round out its features, I’d probably be going through a “divorce” from E’rage, or at least pulling out the rest of my hair.
On the other hand, months of playing with rules and the junk mail filter have resulted in far fewer that 1% of spam getting through with very few false positives, no need to resort to SpamSieve. And the rest of the suite is necessary for all my work. So I’ll have to put up with the Notes not being able to bold certain words or having icons automatically attached to tasks. And I can always look at my colleagues PC’s with Outlook, a true horror to anyone so married to the Mac GUI.
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Bruce
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