Mail Attribution

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Scott Melendez

Is there any way to change mail attribution so that I get Internet-style
(e.g.: On 12/4/02, Scott Melendez wrote ³ and still have the insertion point
AND signature appear at the top? Currently, if I select Internet style, I
can select the insertion point at the beginning, but my signature appears at
the bottom. And there doesn¹t seem to be any way to change news attribution,
even to put the insertion point at the top:

Using Entourage v.X 10.1.5
 
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Paul Berkowitz

This is as close as you can come in Entourage X. (In Entourage 2001, you can
do it exactly the way you want by script. Come to think of it, in Panther
you could too, with the new "GUI" scripting available. I'll do a version
soon.) In the meantime, if you want to do what I'm doing here (reply and sig
at top, short headers below) you can get my script "Reply Insertion Reversed
X" at

MacScripter.net <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

You can do it from a keyboard shortcut - command-control-R - which is pretty
easy to remember.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
Entourage FAQ Page: http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html



From: Scott Melendez <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2003 12:08:44 -0800
Subject: Mail Attribution

Is there any way to change mail attribution so that I get Internet-style
(e.g.: On 12/4/02, Scott Melendez wrote ³ and still have the insertion point
AND signature appear at the top? Currently, if I select Internet style, I
can select the insertion point at the beginning, but my signature appears at
the bottom. And there doesn¹t seem to be any way to change news attribution,
even to put the insertion point at the top:

Using Entourage v.X 10.1.5
 
P

Paul Berkowitz

Here. I just did it. If you're not in Panther, you'll have to move the
cursor to the very top by yourself (it will be just a coupe of lines lower).
There will also be a full second delay.

If you are in Panther, first go to System Prefs/Universal Access, and check
"Enable access for assistive devices" if you've never done it.

Save this script in Script Editor, naming it "Reply Sig at Top \coR" to get
a keyboard shortcut of control-option-R. Save it to Entourage Script Menu
Items folder as a compiled script.


tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
activate
try
set theMsg to item 1 of (get current messages)
if class of theMsg ‚ incoming message then error number -128
on error
beep
return
end try

set replyMsg to reply to theMsg attribution style internet attribution
with place insertion point on top and quote entire message

set sigType to signature type of replyMsg
if sigType is other then
set sigChoice to other signature choice of replyMsg
set theSig to (return & return & content of sigChoice)
else if sigType is random then
set sigChoice to some item of (every signature whose include in
random is true)
set theSig to (return & return & content of sigChoice)
else
set theSig to (return & return)
end if
set signature type of replyMsg to none
delay 0.1
set selection to theSig

end tell

set upArrow to ASCII character 30
try
tell application "System Events"
keystroke upArrow using command down
end tell
end try


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MVP Entourage
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