yes ... what are these f buttons doing actually on my keyboard ? I heard they're supposed to be programmable ... but how ? Sven
> I just figured out (found) a way to create a keyboard shortcut to virtually > any menu option in Entourage X. > > Real life example: I put an ad on Craigslist for an office helper. Got over > 70 responses, which all fell into a Possible Junk folder. As I viewed each > one in the Preview Panel, I wanted to categorize each one into 4 different > Categories that I'd set up (basically, colors that visually represented to > me "Mac skills", "DreamWeaver skills", etc.). > > With this new trick, I just hovered over the F keys. When I read someone's > email that had promising Mac skills, I hit F2, and the highlighted email > turned Red. When I read one that had promising DreamWeaver skills, I hit F3, > and the highlighted email turned Blue. > > This was done through a new $10 utility I've been playing with over the last > month, called Menu Master (http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/menumaster). And > no, I have absolutely no affiliation with Unsanity. Menu Master comes with a > 15 unrestricted demo, so you can try it out. It's interface is brilliantly > easy, the kind you wish all programs had: pick a menu item in any program, > including the Finder (or, in the case of Erage's Categories, a submenu), > and hit the keyboard shortcut you want (which immediately shows up next to > the item). If the menu item already has a keyboard shortcut, first hit > delete (which visually removes the shortcut) and then hit the shortcut that > you want (which then visually shows that shortcut). > > Another real life Entourage example: I'm always going to Entourage X's menu: > Edit: AutoText Cleanup: Remove Quoting. Well, no more. I assigned the > shortcut of Opt-Command-R. Every time I use this shortcut now, I want to > stand up and applaud. > > I know this doesn't have any thing to do with Apple Scripts, and I'm > guessing that there are scripts that could to this trick. But for those who > could not Apple script themselves out of a paper bag (like me), this could > be a cool tool to add to your machines. For me, it's a real home run. > > tuqqer > -- 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/>
