Problem with "RE<space>:"

J

Jean-Claude Arbaut

I have a french MS Office 2004, and when I reply Entourage automatically add
a space between "RE" and ":". Does anyone know how to avoid that behaviour ?
It is very inconvenient to other news readers. I have also a problem with
automatic capitals at the begining of sentences. It's rather inconvenient.
Is there a way to disable any automatic correction like these ? I disabled
spell correction, but it changes nothing to this.
 
D

Daiya Mitchell

Look under Tools | AutoCorrect re the capitalized sentences (same place as
in Word).

I'm guessing that the RE[space]: is because French grammar demands a space
before the colon, and spellcheck is in effect in the subject line....

Disabling "check spelling as you type" didn't fix the RE[space]: problem?
Now I'm curious about where that setting might be...it ought to be grammar
check controlling it but I don't think there's a "check grammar as you type"
setting in Entourage. I wonder if it picks up Word's?

It's conceivable that experimenting with the AutoCorrect options and
Exceptions might also make a difference, though I doubt it.
 
J

Jean-Claude Arbaut

Le 19/06/2005 18:18, dans BEDAE8EB.35176%[email protected],
« Daiya Mitchell » said:
Look under Tools | AutoCorrect re the capitalized sentences (same place as
in Word).

I'm guessing that the RE[space]: is because French grammar demands a space
before the colon, and spellcheck is in effect in the subject line....

Disabling "check spelling as you type" didn't fix the RE[space]: problem?
Now I'm curious about where that setting might be...it ought to be grammar
check controlling it but I don't think there's a "check grammar as you type"
setting in Entourage. I wonder if it picks up Word's?

It's conceivable that experimenting with the AutoCorrect options and
Exceptions might also make a difference, though I doubt it.
Click to expand...

It's ok for capitals now (I didn't look at all options), but not this
"space" problem. In Word both works, but there are many more options (didn't
bother - unchecked all :)).
It seems possible to change the "respond message", i.e. "somebody wrote:",
but not the title. And I suspect it's hard-coded (or set as option), and not
the result of spell check. If only I knew where it is ! It would even be
possible to patch the executable file :)

Thanks for your help.
 
M

Michel Bintener

Hi,
if I remember correctly, the "RE :" issue has been addressed before. The
problem is, as Daiya said, that the French e-mail convention requires the
space before the colon, and non-French versions of Entourage (and some other
e-mail clients, too) do not recognise this as a standard "RE:", which is why
this part is repeated time and time again in the subject line. As far as I
know, there is no way of changing this, and it's clearly an Entourage issue.

Michel
 
J

Jean-Claude Arbaut

Hi,
if I remember correctly, the "RE :" issue has been addressed before. The
problem is, as Daiya said, that the French e-mail convention requires the
space before the colon, and non-French versions of Entourage (and some other
e-mail clients, too) do not recognise this as a standard "RE:", which is why
this part is repeated time and time again in the subject line. As far as I
know, there is no way of changing this, and it's clearly an Entourage issue.

Michel
Click to expand...

Thanks. At least I know there is no solution. Unless finding where
this damn "Re :" is located in MS Entourage executable files, but
it doesn't please me much :)
 
D

Daiya Mitchell

if I remember correctly, the "RE :" issue has been addressed before. The
Thanks. At least I know there is no solution. Unless finding where
this damn "Re :" is located in MS Entourage executable files, but
it doesn't please me much :)
Click to expand...
WARNING! I have no idea how this works and am wildly guessing! Experiment
at your own risk!

Previous discussions about the German version using AW instead of RE sent
people to using a resource editor to change something. This may have a
similar fix. Here is all the info I found, going off a vague memory.

See the very bottom of this link:
http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq_topic/cc_bcc_fw.html

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage/br
owse_frm/thread/ee2bdf36cf50296a/533db95c25965cc6

http://groups-beta.google.com/group/microsoft.public.mac.office.entourage/br
owse_frm/thread/3ca7396f00886381/558a1805c935f499

And I think this is the French Mac MS group where they might already have
found a fix if one exists.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/microsoft.public.fr.mac

Daiya
 
J

Jean-Claude Arbaut

These links seem to lead to "something", I'll post the
solution if I find one.

Thanks everybody for all interesting ideas.
 
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