Default Address

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News Group User

How do you change Entourage's setting for the default address in the address
book. Right now the default address is set for "Word address." I'd like to
change that to "Home." Any ideas. I've tried online help and a thorough
looking through preferences. The only luck I've had is going through each
contact I have and unchecking "default" in the work address pane and
checking "default" in the home address pain.

Any suggestions would be helpful. This will help solve a hotsync issue with
my palm.

Thanks,
SBW
 
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Diane Ross

How do you change Entourage's setting for the default address in the address
book. Right now the default address is set for "Word address." I'd like to
change that to "Home." Any ideas. I've tried online help and a thorough
looking through preferences. The only luck I've had is going through each
contact I have and unchecking "default" in the work address pane and
checking "default" in the home address pain.
Click to expand...

1. On the Tools menu, click Accounts.
2. Click the appropriate tab for the type of default account you want to
specify.
3. Click the account you want to make the default account, and then click
Make Default. (at the top of the window)
€ Mail accounts The default mail account you specify is used as the From
address in all new messages and mailing list responses.


Also in your Address Book, select the account and click "Make default".
 
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News Group User

1. On the Tools menu, click Accounts.
2. Click the appropriate tab for the type of default account you want to
specify.
3. Click the account you want to make the default account, and then click
Make Default. (at the top of the window)
€ Mail accounts The default mail account you specify is used as the From
address in all new messages and mailing list responses.


Also in your Address Book, select the account and click "Make default".
Click to expand...


That really wasn't helpful. I'm not looking for how to make a certain mail
account default. Rather, I'm looking for an address book specific feature.
In the details of a particular contact, and view the "home" tab; there is a
checkbox labeled default address. For every one of my contacts the "work"
address is checked for "default address." I wish the default address
checkbox was checked for "home" instead. I don't know how to change this
setting globally so that all of my contacts have the "home" address checked
as default. I hope this helps someone understand my dilemma.

Thanks for the help.

SBW
 
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Barry N. Wainwright

That really wasn't helpful. I'm not looking for how to make a certain mail
account default. Rather, I'm looking for an address book specific feature.
In the details of a particular contact, and view the "home" tab; there is a
checkbox labeled default address. For every one of my contacts the "work"
address is checked for "default address." I wish the default address
checkbox was checked for "home" instead. I don't know how to change this
setting globally so that all of my contacts have the "home" address checked
as default. I hope this helps someone understand my dilemma.

Thanks for the help.

SBW
Click to expand...

OK, the check mark stays on the 'work' entry until such time as you start to
enter an address in the home fields. If this is the first address for the
contact, then the default postal address is set to 'Home'.

You probably have a problem where you have imported data into the home
addresses and the default tag has not been reset. This can be fixed with an
applescript (see one posted below).

However, Before we go there, a word of warning...

YOU CAN LOSE DATA IF YOU SYNC TO A PALM DEVICE...

Due to a bug in the palm hotsync software, if you have the conduit
preferences set to use ŒHome¹ as the default postal address. The problem
arises because an address created on the Palm has it¹s address entered
correctly. When you first sync this address gets transferredto the Œhome
address¹ in Entourage. OK So far, but... The Œdefault postal address flag
remains on the default Œwork address¹.

Second time you sync, the blank work address will be synced across to the
Palm, erasing the entry in there.

Third time you sync, the now empty address in the palm will be synced back
to the Home Address in Entourage, erasing the data that was there.

That address is now completely gone from Entourage and Palm :(

Now, the script...

This will reset the flag for every contact that has something in the Home
slot and nothing in the Work slot. If there is no address at all, or if
there is something in Work, the contact will be left untouched.


tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set theContacts to (every contact whose business address is {street
address:"", city:"", state:"", zip:"", country:""} and home address is not
{street address:"", city:"", state:"", zip:"", country:""} and default
postal address is not home)
repeat with aContact in theContacts
set default postal address of aContact to home
end repeat
end tell


--
Barry Wainwright
Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details)
Seen the Entourage FAQ pages? - Check them out:
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html>

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