Filing in Entourage (MS Office 2004 version)

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garyd

I've just updated my office computer from my beloved G4 lampshade (OSX
10.4.8) to an Intel MacBook Pro. We bought a new copy of MS Office to
install into the new Mac and I duly put the contents of my old
'Microsoft User Data' folder into 'Documents' in my user folder and
lo! all my MS info and prefs appear in the new computer. Great. Except
for one, tiny, silly difference.

Before, when I went to file emails in the various folders I've
created, Entourage's 'MOVE' drop down menu simply listed the names of
the folders I'd assigned, eg 'Car info'. But now, the same action
shows the list in the drop down menu as 'Car info (Folders on my
computer)'. I don't want the '(Folders on my computer)' bit but I'm
blessed if I can get rid of it, just the folder name.

This is not life threatening stuff but it kinda bugs me. Any
suggestions?*

Thanks, Gary.
 
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Diane Ross

I've just updated my office computer from my beloved G4 lampshade (OSX
10.4.8) to an Intel MacBook Pro. We bought a new copy of MS Office to
install into the new Mac and I duly put the contents of my old
'Microsoft User Data' folder into 'Documents' in my user folder and
lo! all my MS info and prefs appear in the new computer. Great. Except
for one, tiny, silly difference.

Before, when I went to file emails in the various folders I've
created, Entourage's 'MOVE' drop down menu simply listed the names of
the folders I'd assigned, eg 'Car info'. But now, the same action
shows the list in the drop down menu as 'Car info (Folders on my
computer)'. I don't want the '(Folders on my computer)' bit but I'm
blessed if I can get rid of it, just the folder name.

This is not life threatening stuff but it kinda bugs me. Any
suggestions?*
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Try not to look.
Bite your tongue.
Dance wildly and chant while throwing your computer out the window.

Seriously, it's a feature that many do not like. Send feedback to Microsoft
under Help in the menu bar.

You can check out this script, Move messages to different folder 1.0 on
ScriptBuilders.

<http://scriptbuilders.net/files/movemessagestodifferentfolder1.0.html>

I have a few scripts to move messages to a folder. It's for my most used
"move to" folders. You can modify these for your setup.

This one moves to a subfolder:

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
try
set theMessages to current messages
on error
display dialog "select some messages before running this script."
buttons {"Quit Script"} default button 1 with icon stop
return
end try

try
move theMessages to folder "read mail" of folder "inbox"[Substitute
your folder names here]
on error
display dialog "An error occurred and the messages were not moved.
Does the folder\"read\" exist?" buttons {"Quit Script"} default button 1
with icon stop
return
end try
repeat with aMessage in theMessages
set the read status of aMessage to read

end repeat
end tell


This one moves to a folder.

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
try
set theMessages to current messages
on error
display dialog "select some messages before running this script."
buttons {"Quit Script"} default button 1 with icon stop
return
end try

try
move theMessages to folder "!Recent Items"[Substitute your folder
name here]

on error
display dialog "An error occurred and the messages were not moved.
Does the folder\"!Process Later\" exist?" buttons {"Quit Script"} default
button 1 with icon stop
return
end try
end tell

--
Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
Entourage Help Page
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/>
One of the top five MS Entourage resources listed on the Entourage Blog.
<http://blogs.msdn.com/entourage/>
 
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