Deleting "Japanese format"

J

JK

I synchronized about a thousand addresses from Now Contact to
Entourage X. Now most of these contacts are in the Japanese format. So
far, the only way I've found to put contact into a "normal" format is
to open each on individually and manual uncheck "Japanese format"
under the Contact menu. I have no need whatsover for this Japanese
format. Is there a way to completely remove it and have all contact
show up normally?
 
D

Dave Cortright

I synchronized about a thousand addresses from Now Contact to
Entourage X. Now most of these contacts are in the Japanese format. So
far, the only way I've found to put contact into a "normal" format is
to open each on individually and manual uncheck "Japanese format"
under the Contact menu. I have no need whatsover for this Japanese
format. Is there a way to completely remove it and have all contact
show up normally?
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Paste this script into Script Editor, select all your contacts, then click
Run on the script.

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set ts to the selection
repeat with c in ts
try
set Japanese format of c to false
end try
end repeat
end tell
 
J

JK

Dave,

Thanks so much! I know nothing about scripts, but you've taught me the
value of learning. Can you point me to a good tutorial? (Or remain
available to write scripts for me!!!)

-Jay
 
D

Diane Ross

Thanks so much! I know nothing about scripts, but you've taught me the
value of learning. Can you point me to a good tutorial? (Or remain
available to write scripts for me!!!)
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You don't necessarily have to write scripts to use them with Entourage.
Check out our script help page to learn about using scripts and sources to
download scripts.

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

Paul Berkowitz

And you could have done it this way, even quicker (a lot quicker, actually):

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set Japanese format of every contact to false
display dialog "Done!"
end tell

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Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
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