On 3/11/04 3:30 pm, "Gautam Guliani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm using Entourage 2004 and have encountered a strange issue with the way > entourage handles shortcuts. > > I wanted to add a lot of tasks to a project. > > So I created a keyboard shortcut for a new task in keyboard and mouse > preferences pane of system preferences as cmd-opt-T, then I restarted > Entourage. Went to project area with cmd-6 and created a new task with the > shortcut. This worked fine. I saved the task with cmd-s and closed the task > child window with cmd-w > > Now when I go to create another task with cmd-opt-T, I get a new mail > message window instead!?! And Entourage shows that cmd-opt-T to be assigned > to both new message and new task menu items. > > Weird, wild shtuff, as Johnny Carson would say. :-) > > > There's nothing magical about cmd-opt-T, I also tried cmd-opt-K > > To narrow down the problem a little further, this shortcut mess-up happens > after the first use of a system shortcut (like cmd-s or cmd-w ). If I do > those operations via the mouse the keyboard shortcut works. > > Any of you power users have an idea what would cause this and a workaround? > > -- > Gautam Guliani I don't know for sure, but that menu is a dynamic one, where the action of the top line is dependent on the context in which the menu appear - in calendar view it creates a new calendar event, in newsgroups , a new news message etc. I suspect that in switching to a task view the top line has inherited the shortcut you assigned to the lower item, and hasn't released it when a new context appears. One work-round is to use a script like this: Tell app "Microsoft Entourage" to open (get make new task) Save it with the file name "New Task\moT" (without the quotes). This will have the keyboard shortcut and achieve what you desire. -- Barry Wainwright Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details) Seen the All-New Entourage Help Pages? - Check them out: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> -- 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/>
