Edit message subject titles

J

JPB

I just upgraded from Office 2004 to office 2008. The upgrade no longer allows the subject to be edited.

Has anyone else experienced this problem? Have you figured a way around it?
 
M

Michel Bintener

Copy the following script (courtesy of Barry Wainwright) into a new Script
Editor window and save it in ~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Entourage
Script Menu Items. In Entourage, select your message, then click on the
black scroll next to the Help menu and select the script.

-- Change Subject v1.0 (2008-02-07)
-- an applescript by Barry Wainwright <mailto:[email protected]>
-- Script to change the subject of an incoming message in Microsoft
Entourage ©
-- This script released under a Creative Commons Attribution, NonCommercial,
ShareAlike 2.0 England & Wales License.
-- see <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/> for full
details
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
try
set theMessage to item 1 of (get current messages)
if class of theMessage ‚ incoming message then error -99
on error
display dialog "please select an incoming message before running
this script" buttons {"Abort"} default button 1 giving up after 10
end try
set oldSubject to subject of theMessage
try
set newSubject to text returned of (display dialog "Enter New
Subject:" default answer oldSubject)
on error
-- user cancelled
return
end try
set subject of theMessage to newSubject
end tell


I just upgraded from Office 2004 to office 2008. The upgrade no longer allows
the subject to be edited.

Has anyone else experienced this problem? Have you figured a way around it?
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--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:mac (Entourage & Word)

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C

CKOlson

The script worked for me. Thank you!!
I frequently edited message subjects in Entourage 2004, so I could search for important topics later. People often forget to change the message subject when exchanging strings of emails. :smile:
 
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