Creating and/or inserting a table from Word into Entourage

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seanbrit

Does anyone know how to create or insert a table into an e-mail message
in entourage? I've tried copy/pasting and it pastes the data, but not
the actual cells. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
Sean
 
M

Michel Bintener

Entourage cannot create complex HTML messages, which is why tables cannot
simply be pasted into Entourage. If you have Office 2004, however, and if
Entourage is defined as your default e-mail application, you can create your
table in Word 2004, then click on File>Send To>Mail Recipient (as HTML),
which will send your document to Entourage as a complex e-mail message. Note
that once this has been done, you cannot modify your message any longer, so
you need to write your *entire* message in Word before you pass it on to
Entourage.


Does anyone know how to create or insert a table into an e-mail message
in entourage? I've tried copy/pasting and it pastes the data, but not
the actual cells. Any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
Sean
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Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:Mac (Entourage & Word)

***Always reply to the newsgroup.***
 
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Hal

The easiest thing I've found to do is to use OSX's built-in capture keys to
insert items like tables into Entourage. The limitation, here, is that you
can't scroll when you capture. Consequently, your table would have to be
entirely visible on the screen.

For the most part, I use the keyboard sequence - Command/Control/Shift/4 -
for click and drag captures to the clipboard. If I want to capture a window,
I press the spacebar at the end of the Command/Control/Shift/4 sequence;
move the "camera" over the window to be captured; and click to capture the
window to the clipboard. Eliminating the Control key from the capture
sequence produces a file on your desktop called "Picture X," which you can
then keep and insert in any number of future documents.

Hal
 
S

seanbrit

Thanks so much for your advice. You'll have to forgive me, as I'm
completely new to Macs, but how do I make Entourage my default mail
program?

Also, do you know if Microsoft plans to fix this problem with Entourage
in its newer version of Office: Mac?
 
C

Carter Crain

If you need to get the table to someone, just attach it instead of trying to
copy and paste
 
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Mickey Stevens

Thanks so much for your advice. You'll have to forgive me, as I'm
completely new to Macs, but how do I make Entourage my default mail
program?
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Open Mail, and then go to Mail > Preferences. Open "General" preferences.
Next to "Default Email Reader", click "Select". Locate your copy of
Microsoft Entourage, and click "Select". Quit Mail to save your changes.
Also, do you know if Microsoft plans to fix this problem with Entourage
in its newer version of Office: Mac?
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They haven't made any announcement about most details of the new version.
You'll probably be able to find the latest information on Mactopia
<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/default.aspx> as well as at the Mac Mojo blog
<http://blogs.msdn.com/macmojo/>.
 
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Michel Bintener

Unfortunately, Apple doesn't make it easy on OS X users when it comes to
defining the default e-mail application. If the File>Send To>Mail Recipient
(as HTML) is visible in Word 2004, then Entourage is your default mail
client, because the menu wouldn't show up otherwise. If it isn't, then there
are two different procedures, depending on your operating system:

* in Mac OS X 10.2 and earlier, you can set your default mail client in
System Preferences.

* in Mac OS X 10.3 and above (which should be your OS if your Mac is fairly
recent), this needs to be done in Apple's Mail application. Open it, then
open the preferences, and in the General section, use the drop-down list to
browse your hard disk and define Entourage as the default application.

Nobody outside of Microsoft knows what changes they are going to make to
Entourage in the next version, so you need to wait for Microsoft's official
announcements over the next couple of months. Hopefully, though, they'll
make some changes to Entourage's extremely limited HTML capabilities, and if
they do, chances are high that you will be able to create simple tables from
within Entourage.


Thanks so much for your advice. You'll have to forgive me, as I'm
completely new to Macs, but how do I make Entourage my default mail
program?

Also, do you know if Microsoft plans to fix this problem with Entourage
in its newer version of Office: Mac?
Click to expand...

--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:Mac (Entourage & Word)

***Always reply to the newsgroup.***
 
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