On 5/28/04 11:40 AM, "David Cortright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> You know, they really need to fix that, and bring it in line with the rest >> of the Office suite (cmd-delete) or the rest of the Mac world >> (option-delete). There's no good reason for keyboard shortcuts in Entourage >> to be different than those in Word when it comes to text editing in an email >> message. > > Yes there is. Cmd-Delete means delete the current item in Entourage. It's > been this way since back in the OE days. It's very unlikely we'd change > this. We could assign it to option-delete, which seems more standard (and by > the way also works in Word). There needs to be something. It's a major, major usability problem. > > >> Of course, they also didn't think the ability insert text that's a URL was >> important enough to include, so who knows what's going on in the minds of >> the Entourage team... > > Uh, you know that members of the Entourage team are on this list, right? > Inserting a URL works fine, witness: > http://www.msn.com/ That's not what I want. I want to type "Come to my website" and have "website" be the link. Outlook can do this. WORD can do this. Entourage should be able to do this. If I type my email in Word and insert a proper URL there, and send it out as HTML mail through Entourage, it all works. But that's a horrible, kludgey way to send email. Perhaps you think it's unimportant, but the lack of that basic feature has caused me problems this week. I'm sending out political fund raising emails to some friends and associates, and want to include a hyperlinke to the donation page that specifically ties into my KerryCore account... But it's a big, long awkward URL. Good usability would let me just put "Click here to donate," but I can't. And that's frustrating. When something is so frustrating that I walk into the other room and use Outlook (gag, spit) on my Windows computer to send the email, that's a big deal to me. Because I hate using Outlook. It's not nearly as good a program as Entourage -- but its a more functional program when it comes to authoring email. Kirk -- 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/>
