Paul Berkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 11/8/07 4:28 PM: >> 1) You'd think that Entourage would let me "Print Envelope" right from the >> its Address Book; > > No, you wouldn't. I certainly wouldn't. Entourage is an EMAIL and personal > data (calendar, contacts) application. It's not for writing letters or > envelopes. That's what Word is for, and it uses the same address book.
Entourage may be largely an email application, but, as you noted, since Entourage and Word use the same Address Book, the MS Address Book is part of Microsoft Office. MS Office ought to be able to handle a simple request such as "print an envelope, with all the populated fields, from the Address Book that is in front of me." MS Word ought to be able to do even more with the information in Address Book, not less. >> Word does not utilize all of Entourage Address Book's fields for the >> person's Job title or Department, which are already populated in the >> Entourage Address Book. > Yes, that's a limitation, I agree. I don't know why they didn't add those > fields to the envelope options. If MS Word can not use all the populated fields in MS Office's Address Book, that means that the representation of data is unreliable. Who knows what else Word is leaving out, or getting wrong? Unreliable data representation is a grievous error for a database -- which is what MS Office becomes when one uses the Address Book as a "plugin" to MS Word. I tend to rely on the automated features in a database. If the features don't do what they present themselves as doing, then they are worse than useless. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Roger S. Cohen, President, Cohen International [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rogercohen.com Voice: +1 (845) 358-8936 Fax: +1 (845) 358-8937 -- 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/>
