On 27/3/06 17:00, "Lew Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 3/26/06 5:30 PM, "Lew Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> So far Entourage has performed poorly in it's attempts to import Group >>> addresses from Claris Emailer 2.0v3. Each group is imported but each and >>> everyone has only a small fraction of the actual number of addresses in >>> each group. >>> >>> I am attempting to prepare for a new MacBookPro which will not run >>> CEmailer or any other Classic app. >>> >>> PowerBook G4, 1GHz, 768MB, OS X 10.4.5, Entourage v11.2.3. >> >> Claris Emailer is about 7 years out of date. I'm not too surprised. >> >> Download Outlook Express and import Emailer's data into that. I think that >> should work a lot better: loads of people did that back in 1999 and for the >> next few years. >> >> Then import OE's (contacts and) groups into Entourage. I'd suspect that even >> as late as Entourage 2004 that was tested fairly rigorously and should work. >> It certainly did in Entourage X since OE was still the default email app >> back when Entourage X was released (for OS 10.1). >> >> -- >> Paul Berkowitz > > Using OExpress as an intermediary works just fine. I have used that > scheme in the past for others but had forgotten about it. > > One of the reasons, I have hung on to Claris Emailer long after it's > demise in January 1998 is the way it handles address groups. I manage > several groups for our MUG. In CE there is a column in the Address Book > called 'Description'. Any info the user wanted could be entered here and > one can sort on that column. This made it very easy to bring together a > group of addresses in preparation for creating a group. > > This entry was placed in the Notes field of OExpress and subsequently to > the Notes field in Entourage. Problem is that I see no way to have a > Notes column in Address Book. If that is correct, is it possible to > create an Apple Script that would move that info to one of the fields > that can be displayed? > > Lew Nelson
Notes can't be displayed and sorted in the address book listing, but there are 8 custom fields that can be - why not use one of those? -- Barry Wainwright Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details) Check out the Entourage User's WebLog for hints, tips and troubleshooting <http://homepage.mac.com/barryw/weblog/weblog.html> -- 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/>
