On or near 5/28/04 10:56 AM, Tom Chirpich at [EMAIL PROTECTED] observed:
> Here is a clunky method that gets what I want. Suppose I wanted to see all
> messages in this thread and that I goten to this thread by searching for
> �message body containing both location and popup.� I can open one of the
> messages in the Find results, copy the subject after �Re: �, close the message
> (if I don�t close it, I get �no results� in the next search), highlight some
> message in the folder (alternatively, set the default to a specific folder as
> Paul suggested), and do an advanced search for all messages with the title of
> the found message.
>
What you probably need, then, is an AppleScript. When doing things with the
user interface gets "clunky", that's when scripting comes in handy. The
problem is that AppleScript can't create a search results window. The best
it can do is to display the entire contents of a folder with the relevant
messages highlighted.
But how about this?
Open a folder and sort its listing by Subject.
Run your Advanced find to find messages in this folder whose message body
contains both "location" and "popup". Highlight one of them and then run
this script (which you have saved from Script Editor into Entourage Script
Menu Items, assigning a keystroke to it if you wish as described in
Entourage Help):
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set theMsg to item 1 of (get current messages)
set sto to the storage of theMsg
set sub to the subject of theMsg
if sub begins with "re: " then set sub to text 5 thru -1 of sub
set thread to every message of sto whose subject contains sub
close the front window
open sto
set the selection to thread
end tell
That will highlight the entire thread. Alternatively, you could change the
last line (before the "end tell") to this, which would just select the first
message of the thread.
set msg to item 1 of thread
set the selection to {msg}
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