Configuring Your Signatures

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safricancracker

Every mail program on the internet and software mail programs offer a
very simple yet very important feature allowing the user to have
his/her signature automatically placed just above the quoted section of
the email he/she is replying to. Why doesn't Microsoft Entourage!?!

For example, once I've created my signature, specified which account I
want it used in, Entourage will then automatically insert it into my
message that I'm about to compose like so:

| <-- My blinking cursor

--
Glen I Lawson
Physics Major (Senior)
On-Campus (Becton Hall)
Cell... etc

However, what Microsoft can't pull off after I hit "Reply" to an email
is the following:

| <-- My blinking cursor

--
Glen I Lawson * THE
Physics Major (Senior) * MAGICAL
On-Campus (Becton Hall) * ZONE FOR
Cell... etc * SIGNATURES!

Glen,

Don't be too hard on this students lab report. I had a full class and 2
of the computers ....
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Instead, Entourage just sticks my signature at the very bottom of a now
low email due to the use of quoting the email you are replying to. What
good is a signature when the reader can't easily find it! For goodness
sake, could someone please tell me how I could get this expensive
program to do something so simple, so common, yet so important as
specifying the location of my signature when replying!

Greatly appreciate it!
 
S

safricancracker

IMPORTANT!!!
I'm running Microsoft Entourage 2004 For Mac, so don't reply directing
me to a menu or option that just doesn't plainly exist.

I've looked at previous posts and NO ONE can direct me to a menu that
gives the option I'm looking for. And all the links given to go fix
Microsoft's mess up using AppleScript are all broken.
 
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Barry Wainwright [MVP]

IMPORTANT!!!
I'm running Microsoft Entourage 2004 For Mac, so don't reply directing
me to a menu or option that just doesn't plainly exist.

I've looked at previous posts and NO ONE can direct me to a menu that
gives the option I'm looking for. And all the links given to go fix
Microsoft's mess up using AppleScript are all broken.
Click to expand...

See here for a description of the options, and some solutions to common
requests that can be satisfied with (free) third party scripts:

"Are you a Top or Bottom Poster?"
<http://homepage.mac.com/barryw/weblog/files/category-6.html#unique-entry-id
-10>
 
S

safricancracker

Thanks Barry, that website did lead me to the next best thing.

But I was right, even you said:
"Nowhere is the preferred option for most top-posters: cursor;
signature; short attribution line; quoted text."

And this is my response to your great website:

Amazing work you've done here. Directions are clear and accurate, and
your describtions are on key.

I just have to say a few things directed towards Microsoft's expensive
program called Entourage. It has problems! No surprise, yet annoying. I
constantly have problems with my IMAP accounts and now and then have to
rebuild them (took me a few support calls and late night investigating
to figure that option out). And now I can't have the SIMPLE option of
hitting reply and getting: cursor, signature, attribution, quoted text.
What email program other than Entourage 2004 have such an option
missing from their prefences I beg to ask? And on top of it, how does
"Place reply at top of message and include From, Date, To, and Subject
lines from original message." mean --> cursor, signature, header,
quoted text!!!! It doesn't!! I would know, I speak English unlike
Microsoft! So please Microsoft, include those extremely simple, common,
and significant options in your future programs and PLEASE title your
options CORRECTLY!

Lastly, it's sad that we have to resort to OS scripting to correct the
shortfalls of expensive Microsoft software. I didn't know Microsoft
required their users to know how to program in order to get the
functionality out of their expensive software, way to go about
advertising "user-friendly"!!!
 
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