Is there no one out there?

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Francis Hookham

I hoped to receive an answer to my query of 20/11/05, copied below, by now
Is it possible to default Entourage so that a folder I have named ŒPENDING¹ is
open and on top whenever Entourage is opened?
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Francis Hookham
 
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William Smith

Francis Hookham said:
I hoped to receive an answer to my query of 20/11/05, copied below, by now
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Hi Francis!

I'll assume you're using the latest version of Entourage 2004 on Mac OS
X. You can do this with a simple-to-create Applescript and the Schedules
feature of Entourage. Try this:

1. Copy and paste the following three lines into the Script Editor
application found in /Applications/AppleScript...

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
open folder "PENDING"
end tell

2. Save this as a script to a location of your choosing. I suggest
saving the script somewhere in your home folder as "Entourage - Open
PENDING".

3. Launch Entourage, go to Tools --> Run Schedule --> Edit Schedules.

4. Create a new Schedule and name it something like "Open PENDING at
startup".

5. Set When to "At Startup".

6. Set Action to "Run Applescript". Click the Script button and select
the "Entourage - Open PENDING" script you just saved.

7. By default, the Enabled button at the bottom of the new schedule
should be selected, but you should verify this.

Quit Entourage and relaunch it to test.

Hope this helps! bill
 
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William Smith

Francis Hookham said:
Many thanks Bill ­ 20 years of Apple and I have never ventured into
AppleScript WHICH I MUST NOW DO! I¹ve relied on Quickeys but, having moved
to OSX and not having an office expense account, I must find other ways than
buying updates where I can

As always it is the first step which is the main problem ­ now you prompted
me to take it!

Any tips for where to look for a quick guide to AppleScript rather than long
winded page after page of gobbledygook? True, I have not even opened
AppleScript to see want the Help is like
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Hi Francis!

Hope this works for your needs.

If you don't want to learn the details of Applescript (many people
don't), you can still take advantage of it by learning a bit about the
Script Editor <http://www.apple.com/applescript/scripteditor/> and then
browsing the web for snippets of code that you can copy and paste into
scripts of your own.

The Microsoft Office applications are Applescriptable and folks like
Paul Berkowitz and Allen Watson (names you'll see here a lot) have
contributed snippets and entire scripts to Macscripter
<http://www.macscripter.net/>.

If you're interested in subscribing to a good mailing list, be sure to
check out Apple's Applescript Users email list
<http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/applescript-users> at
<http://lists.apple.com/>.

Hope this helps! bill
 
M

Metritype

If I understand your question, simple put a space (or more) before the
first letter of the folder title.
 
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Francis Hookham

Thanks again Bill ­ you have whetted my appetite ­ I shall have a go and
shall join the newsgroup ­ there is so much generous help out there from you
amazing MVPs

Francis
 
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