Just installed Office 2004. In contact page, I select a contact, click apple-option-T to use applescript to create new task. Get error message “You must select just one contact in the address book.” In Ent X, those key strokes worked. What do I need to do? Thanks.
There's no such built-in command - take a look at your menus from Entourage through Help. Yet you did get a result - an odd error message. What could this be? (I get absolutely nothing with that key combination.) Don't you think it just might be a script? I think you use some scripts, don't you? And scripts can have keyboard combos. So look in your Script menu for any menu item (script name) that has the key shortcut ââT. I wouldn't be surprised if it was called something like "Make Task from Contact" or "Create Task from Contact". (It's not one of mine, unless maybe something sent to the list here which I forgot about.) It's most likely by Barry or Allen, but could be by anyone. I don't think it's one of those that came with Entourage like "Make Task from Message".
In any case when you find it in your list of scripts, hold down Option key as you select it. That will open it up in Script Editor. There you should see at the top the name and hopefully the email address of the person who wrote the script. Send that person an email asking them to fix it, or what you should do.
The only significant major change in Entourage's 2004 scripting as it would affect pre-existing scripts is that the class of text is now ''Unicode text' and not 'string'. My guess is that somewhere in that script is a check to make sure that you have selected something of class string that's now erroring and being caught by an error trap that didn't expect this situation so it's giving you an inappropriate error message. The script probably just needs a tiny correction. First you have to find which script it is.
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Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>
PLEASE always state which version of Microsoft Office you are using - **2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise.
