Converting Address from Home to Business

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Steve Hyde

Hi,

I'm relatively new to the Mac having previously been a PC user (haven't
looked back yet!). When I installed Entourage I added my address book by way
of a sync with my Palm Tungsten.

Somehow, and I still haven't found out why, all of the addresses for
contacts with only one address got entered under 'Home Address', whether
they were the Business address or the Home address. Now I've got all
businesses, such as restaurants entered under 'Home Address'.

I'd like to convert these to 'Business' Address but as I have over 500
addresses, and as Entourage doesn't make it very easy to change addresses -
you have to cut, copy and paste each line of the address separately - it
isn't an easy job. Does anyone know of a solution for this problem?

And while I'm here, does anyone know of a solution for getting the event
category synchronised with the Palm. I use categories extensively but when
syncing, they don't get included!

Any help would be gratefully received.

Steve
 
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Barry Wainwright

I'd like to convert these to 'Business' Address but as I have over 500
addresses, and as Entourage doesn't make it very easy to change addresses -
you have to cut, copy and paste each line of the address separately - it
isn't an easy job. Does anyone know of a solution for this problem?
Click to expand...

Use this script:

(* Swap Home & work addresses v1.0.0
Barry Wainwright 12th August 2003
*)

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
if class of (get displayed feature of window 1) is contact then
-- a contact window is open
set contactList to {displayed feature of window 1}
else if class of (get displayed feature of window 1) is address book
then
-- address book is open
set contactList to selection
end if
if contactList is {} then
beep
else
repeat with aContact in contactList
tell aContact
copy home address to temp
copy (get business address) to home address
copy temp to business address
end tell
end repeat
end if
end tell
 
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Steve Hyde

Hi Barry,

I used this and now have all my addresses in Entourage correctly entered.
The only problem now it that all of the business addresses disappeared from
my Palm. It¹s as if the Entourage Conduit doesn¹t recognise ŒWork Address¹.
Any ideas what the problem could be?

Thanks,

Steve
 
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Steve Hyde

Hi Again,

I just found out why not all addresses were synchronising ­ it seems that
the address must be marked as the default address for it to get
synchronised. In my case, as the addresses from the Palm got copied into
Entourage with the first synch they clearly didn¹t get marked as Œdefault¹.
Having now gone through my entire address book and made sure that the
relevant addresses are marked as default, everything now syncs properly.

Thanks again for the help.

Steve
 
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