Anyone having trouble with the linking to contacts?

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Steve J

Folks,

Am currently running Office 2004 under 10.3.4. Am having problems
linking items to contacts.

Creating a link from any Entourage item to a contact (Link button >
Link to Existing Contact) gives me a small window with a list of all
my Address Book contacts. First column is "Name", second is
"Company", 3rd "Email". To create the link I have to locate the
contact in this window.

Interestingly the First column is an array with the names of my
contacts but also contains company names if the Address Book entry is
only a company (without a person's name). 1400 contacts in total.
This first column is NOT sorted so there is no way of locating the
contact. To be able to locate an entry by typing the first few letter
of the surname, I have to click the header of the Names column, which
sorts it in reverse order, then click it again to sort the in the
correct order. Now I can type "smi" to locate the "Smiths" of this
world. Otherwise I have to scroll down attempting to locate the
correct entry. This is a lengthy process.

Is this a bug? Is anyone else having this problem? Am I missing
something? Is there any way of letting the MBU now about the bug?

Regards,

Steve Jamieson
 
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Paul Berkowitz

Am currently running Office 2004 under 10.3.4. Am having problems
linking items to contacts.

Creating a link from any Entourage item to a contact (Link button >
Link to Existing Contact) gives me a small window with a list of all
my Address Book contacts. First column is "Name", second is
"Company", 3rd "Email". To create the link I have to locate the
contact in this window.

Interestingly the First column is an array with the names of my
contacts but also contains company names if the Address Book entry is
only a company (without a person's name). 1400 contacts in total.
This first column is NOT sorted so there is no way of locating the
contact. To be able to locate an entry by typing the first few letter
of the surname, I have to click the header of the Names column, which
sorts it in reverse order, then click it again to sort the in the
correct order. Now I can type "smi" to locate the "Smiths" of this
world. Otherwise I have to scroll down attempting to locate the
correct entry. This is a lengthy process.

Is this a bug? Is anyone else having this problem? Am I missing
something? Is there any way of letting the MBU now about the bug?
Click to expand...

It's a bug. You have to click Name twice to sort, yes. At least it sorts...
You could also request a little filter box for faster finding.

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Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
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Steve J

Paul,

What's the usual timing for a first up-date of a new version such as
Office 2004? Do we expect this in 12 months or 6 months or less? Do
they actually read the bug reports we send in? Is the only way to
contact them via the Help > Send Feedback on Entourage menu item?

Regards,

Steve Jamieson
 
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The Terminator

If you think linking to contacts is buggy, try linking a Task to the
Calendar...you get a LIST of your Calendar, instead of a calendar view, like
E X used to do.

I REALLY hope Microsoft brings back the Entourage X way of linking items ­
or give us a better way. I¹ve given up on using links any more because it¹s
too buggy.
 
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