Edit Message - 2008 seems unable to edit Subject line

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GabeFSU

I ALWAYS edited the subject of my client e-mails to better reflect the subject matter and accompanying notes.
I am LOST without the ability to do this. The "edit" shortcut "button" is gone and I am unable to change the subject. PLEASE HELP!
Will there be an MS update which enables this usage? I may just go back to 2004 otherwise. Thanks!
 
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Diane Ross

I ALWAYS edited the subject of my client e-mails to better reflect the subject
matter and accompanying notes.
I am LOST without the ability to do this. The "edit" shortcut "button" is gone
and I am unable to change the subject. PLEASE HELP!
Will there be an MS update which enables this usage? I may just go back to
2004 otherwise. Thanks!
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See this workaround and explanation of why it's missing:

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/2008.html#bug2>
 
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Serenity101

See this workaround and explanation of why it's missing:

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/2008.html#bug2>
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That page didn't help me at all, unfortunately. I placed
edit_subject.scpt in the proper folder, but when I open Entourage, the
command is nowhere to be found. I tried renaming edit_subject.scpt to
edit_subject.scpt \mE (adding a space, backslash, modifier and
capital shortcut letter to the end of the filename) -- and Command-E
within Entourage does nothing.

How do I get this script to work?

Thanks,
K.
 
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Diane Ross

That page didn't help me at all, unfortunately. I placed
edit_subject.scpt in the proper folder, but when I open Entourage, the
command is nowhere to be found. I tried renaming edit_subject.scpt to
edit_subject.scpt \mE (adding a space, backslash, modifier and
capital shortcut letter to the end of the filename) -- and Command-E
within Entourage does nothing.
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Try copy/paste this into the Script Editor.

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"

set objMessage to item 1 of (get current messages)


set dlgReply to display dialog "Subject:" default answer (get subject of
objMessage) with icon 1
if text returned of dlgReply is not "" then
set subject of objMessage to text returned of dlgReply
end if

end tell

I'm uploading a new copy of the script.

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/downloads/scripts/edit_subject.zip>
 
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Serenity101

Thanks so much, Diane. The \mE extension now works, and I can edit my
Subjects within Entourage using Cmd-E.

BTW, in keeping with other existing script filenames in that folder, I
did Not put a space after the filename (before the backslash), and
that works fine. Not sure if the instructions on Microsoft's how-to
page on scripts are incorrect.

Is this inability to edit the subject line (the old way) going to be
fixed in a future release, or will we always have to use this script?

thanks,
K.
 
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Diane Ross

BTW, in keeping with other existing script filenames in that folder, I
did Not put a space after the filename (before the backslash), and
that works fine. Not sure if the instructions on Microsoft's how-to
page on scripts are incorrect.
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Could you provide the URL. Want to make sure it's not my page with wrong
directions. Here is my page.

To add a shortcut to a script:

Is this inability to edit the subject line (the old way) going to be
fixed in a future release, or will we always have to use this script?
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I haven't heard so can't comment. I would guess that it would be added, but
when probably depends on time. Right now they have bug fixes that cause
problems that have a higher priority.
 
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