Close original message when replying?

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Patrick Dandenault

How do I set Entourage 2008 to automatically close the original email
message when replying to it?

Thanks,
Pat
silver_surfer15 AT yahoo.com
 
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Patrick Dandenault

I have a very small laptop screen so those ideas inconvenient.
There's no way to close he original msg when replying?

Thanks for your help,
Pat
 
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Diane Ross

I have a very small laptop screen so those ideas inconvenient.
There's no way to close he original msg when replying?
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Maybe one of the scripters can provide a script to reply to and close the
message window. You could assign a script shortcut to make this seamless.
 
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Diane Ross

Maybe one of the scripters can provide a script to reply to and close the
message window. You could assign a script shortcut to make this seamless.
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Just heard back from Paul Berkowitz, one of the Entourage scripters....

It can be scripted if s/he is willing to use another keyboard shortcut (i.e.
run a script) to Reply and Reply All - e.g. ctrl-cmd-R and shift-ctrl-cmd-R.

It is not scriptable if he wants the Reply button or menu item or standard
shortcuts cmd-r and shift-cmd-R to be "intercepted" to do something
different.

Are you OK with using another keyboard shortcut?
 
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Diane Ross

J ust heard back from Paul Berkowitz, one of the Entourage scripters....
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Download

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/downloads/scripts/reply_msg_closewin.zip>

Paste the following into the Script Editor.

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
activate
try
set theMsg to item 1 of (get current messages)
on error
beep
return
end try
set frontWindow to window 1
if displayed message of frontWindow is theMsg and class of frontWindow
is message window then -- i.e. in its own window, not (just) main window
reply to theMsg with opening window
close frontWindow
end if
end tell

To add a shortcut to a script:

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/script/add_shortcuts.html>
 
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