I suppose you could write a simple AppleScript that would write the
name of the attachment(s) into the message body of a reply.
This one should work. It's based on some code by Paul Berkowitz.
On your computer, go to /Applications/AppleScript/, and open Script Editor.
Paste the following in:
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
try
if window 1 = main window then
set theMsg to item 1 of (get current messages)
else if class of window 1 = message window then
set theMsg to displayed message of window 1
else
error number -128
end if
if class of theMsg ‚ incoming message then error number -128
set msg1 to (reply to theMsg)
set theContent to content of msg1
close window 1
on error
beep
display dialog "You must have a received message in the front or
selected in the message pane of the main window for the Reply script to
work." buttons "OK" default button "OK" with icon 0
return
end try
try
set theAttachments to name of every attachment of theMsg
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {return & "> "}
set attachmentText to "> Attachments:" & return & "> " &
theAttachments
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {""}
on error
set attachmentText to "[no attachments]"
end try
close window 1
set content of (reply to theMsg) to theContent & ">" & return &
attachmentText
end tell
Then, go File > Save As. Call the script "Reply without Quoting
Characters", and save the script to ~/Documents/Microsoft User
Data/Entourage Script Menu Items/. You can easily set a keyboard shortcut
to the script by adding a code to the end of the filename at this step.
Read here for more on that:
<
http://www.entourage.mvps.org/script/add_shortcuts.html>
Then, in Entourage, when you want to reply to a message, simply select the
message, and select the script from the script menu (to the right of the
"Help" menu), or press the keyboard shortcut. A reply will then be created
with the quoting characters gone and the insertion point on top.
(Note: "~" stands for your home folder, usually located in /Users/<Your
User>/.)
