I understand how to use the Birthday reminder piece from Address Book to the
Calendar. What I'm wondering is whether or not there's a way to change the
default message: "Birthday: ".
No, there isn't.
I'd rather the default be "<Name>'s Birthday".
Too bad. But you can certainly change it after it appears in the calendar.
The easy way is to go into the All Events calendar view in the left pane of
the calendar area, if you have Entourage 2004 (or else make a File/Custom
View for Calendar Events item type, where the Title starts with Birthday).
Click on the Title column header to sort by name. alphabetically, and all
the Birthday: events will be sorted together. You can change them all, one
at a time, and in future when you add a new one.
Or run a script:
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set birthdayEvents to every event whose subject starts with "Birthday: "
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"Birthday: "}
repeat with birthdayEvent in birthdayEvents
set theTitle to subject of birthdayEvent
set contactName to text item 2 of birthdayEvent
set subject of birthdayEvent to contactName & "'s Birthday"
end repeat
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {""}
display dialog "Done!" buttons {"OK"} default button 1 with icon 1
end tell
I've tried to look through the archives, but I've not found anything that
directly addresses this.
--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
Entourage FAQ Page: <
http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <
http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>
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