Thanks for your reply on this thread:
Thanks! I sometimes do that already, and I usually remember to delete it afterwards. But much of the time I'm searching by subject or date and I simply don't know the name to enter until I find the message itself, and --at that point-- it seems I ought to be able copy the information that's right in front of me.
From: Diane Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 15:37:45 -0700
Subject: Re: Copy from From: or To: or similar fields - shortcut fails
On 9/7/04 10:05 AM, "henryn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Here’s scenario #1: I’m preparing a new message, and I need to put an email
> address of someone in the body. I search for a message from that person,
> highlight the text following “From:”, press command-c, observe the Edit menu
> flashing, then move to the new message and hit command-v. In each case,
> when the bug is active, what is pasted is whatever was already on the
> clipboard rather than the email address I want.
This is not the answer to your copy/paste problem, but this is the way I add
an address to the body of a message. This might be easier than searching for
the email. I enter the name of the person in an address fields then drag the
entry into the body of the message. Just be sure to delete it afterwards.
:-)
>I followed your instructions as best I could and I found that copy/paste seems to work in all cases, both inside and outside of Entourage, after opening the message with the most complex HTML I could find, which wasn’t very complex. (My colleagues never said more than simple formatted text, and my current spam crop is really boring.)
> Scenario #2: When replying to HTML mail, I write my first line of response,
> format it to my preferences (Times 12 nonbold), and then copy the first
> character in the line. Then when I want to insert a response next, I place
> the cursor, hit a return or two, and command-v followed by backspace. This
> seems to be the fastest way to establish my format in interspersed responses,
> rather than fooling each time with the various controls, and it seems to
> always work. In other words, command-c and command-v seem to always work in
> the message body.
Can you try this. Quit Entourage. Do not read any mail. Now try to
copy/paste. Does it work? If yes, then open any complex HTML message then
try your copy/paste. Let me know what you find.
By the way, I have the Preferences-->HTML options-->Display complex HTML in messages disabled.
Hmmm, I see a preference I have not noticed before: Preferences-->General-->Use Microsoft Office keyboard shortcuts for editing text. It is disabled. No contextual help ... Checking main help ... Good information. It looks like Entourage offers two different shortcut key mappings, based on this setting. Maybe there's an irregularity in this function —maybe the maps are dynamically adjusted for context— and that would mean lots of changes to the mapping table — a really likely place for a glitch. Now, if I can just discover the trigger...
I just this instant got a message that definitely contains complex HTML by my definition: lots of formatted text, a number of graphics, and some really lurid promises. I’ll open it, then check a copy from the grey From: info. Yep, it works! (Oh, what an unusual name she has...)
Thanks,
Henry
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Diane Ross
Mac MVP
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