display contact and reply to a mail

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Antoine VIALETAY

Hi I'm a french user of entourage.
Before using entourage I was on PC with using outlook.

I have some question about it:
Is it possible to display the contact with last name and then first name?
Actually I have all my contact's sorting with first name and then last
name...

Is it possible to have automatically an other color for the text when you
reply?
(like does mail and outlook...)

Thanks a lot for your help

Take care
 
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Barry Wainwright

They are displayed as first_name, last_name ­ but they should be sorted as
last_name, first_name.

If you really want to display the last name in a column of it¹s own, you
could use the nickname column to hold the last name as well as the last name
field.

This script will copy all last_names into the nickname field. You can then
set your address book display to show nicknames and drag that column to you
r preferred position:

<http://tinyurl.com/3zavo>

If that URL doesn¹t work, here is the script in full:

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set theContacts to every contact
repeat with aContact in theContacts
set nickname of aContact to last name of aContact
end repeat
display dialog "Finished!" & return ¬
& (count theContacts) & " Contacts updated." ¬
buttons {"OK"} default button 1 with icon note ¬
giving up after 5
end tell

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Barry Wainwright
Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details)
Seen the All-New Entourage Help Pages? - Check them out:
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>



From: Antoine VIALETAY <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 08:38:34 +0100
Subject: display contact and reply to a mail

Hi I'm a french user of entourage.
Before using entourage I was on PC with using outlook.

I have some question about it:
Is it possible to display the contact with last name and then first name?
Actually I have all my contact's sorting with first name and then last
name...

Is it possible to have automatically an other color for the text when you
reply?
(like does mail and outlook...)

Thanks a lot for your help

Take care
 
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Antoine VIALETAY

Hi,

I try to used the script but it seems that he don't work.

I copy it into my folder, when I launch the script, I have a windows that
told me all my contact succed but I have nothing on the nickname folder.

Why???

Thanks for helping me...

Le 2/12/04 10:26, dans BDD49034.31AC5%[email protected], « Barry
Wainwright » a écrit :
 
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Barry Wainwright

Nickname folder? What nickname folder? The script will put a copy of the
contacts last name into the nickname FIELD in the contact.

I wonder...
Sometimes changes made to contacts by script don't get 'noticed' by
entourage until the contact entry has been 'touched'.

Run this script:

http://tinyurl.com/6sbcl

Tell app "Microsoft Entourage"
Repeat with aContact in every contact
Open acontact
Close window 1
End repeat
End tell

This will open and close every contact, forcing a re-save of each one.

After running this, do the last names show up in the listing for the address
book? (You may have to set the nickname column to show up first (view menu;
'columns' - and check 'nicknames', as the column is not displayed by
default).
 
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