Changing some defaults

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Office 2004 Test Drive User

When I add a new Category, Entourage assigns it a new color. Is there some
way I can change the default so that any new category is automatically
created in Black?

Also, when I create a Calendar Event, the default duration is 30 minutes.
Can I change the default to zero so I don't have to manually do it every
time I create a new Event?
 
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Paul Berkowitz

When I add a new Category, Entourage assigns it a new color. Is there some
way I can change the default so that any new category is automatically
created in Black?
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No. Well, I suppose you could create a new category this way instead. Run
this script from the script menu (or assign a keyboard shortcut to it - see
the Help on "Script menu":

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
activate
set done to false
display dialog "Enter the name for a new category: " default answer ""
with icon 1
set catName to text returned of result
repeat until done
if exists category catName then
beep
display dialog (catName & " category already exists. Pick
another name: ") default answer "" with icon 2
set catName to text returned of result
else
set done to true
end if
end repeat
make new category with properties {name:catName, color:{0, 0, 0}}
end tell

It will happen silently behind the scenes. If you want the "Edit Categories"
window to open then add the next bit on as well:


tell application "System Events"
tell process "Microsoft Entourage"
pick menu item "Edit Categories" of menu 1 of menu item "Categories"
of menu 1 of menu bar item "Edit" of menu bar 1
end tell
end tell


Also, when I create a Calendar Event, the default duration is 30 minutes.
Can I change the default to zero so I don't have to manually do it every
time I create a new Event?
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If you'd use the Week or Day view of the calendar, you can select whatever
segment of time you wish before double-clicking the selection. The default,
as it happens, is 30 minutes (just one segmented selected) plus you get the
advantage of already having the correct Start Time set.

If you don't want to change the view from Month, you could do it by script,
but there will be much less flexibility for the start time of an event. the
script won't know which day you have in mind, so it will have to arbitrarily
pick a day (like tomorrow), which would surely be more trouble to alter than
just changing the End Time of the event.



--
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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