Every week I keep receiving repeat emails I have read from the previous
week. Just recently I had over 40 repeat emails from last week and the
week before.
What kind of account? POP, IMAP, Exchange?
Also, is there a way to set the address book so that it is
alpahabetized by the first name similar to Microsoft Outlook is setup?
The Address Book displays the names as FirstName LastName, but they are
sorted in alphabetical order by LAST name, not first name. Click on the Name
column and you'll see for yourself.
You can work around the limitation in the Address Book by leaving First Name
fields of all contacts blank, and putting the first name into the Nickname
field instead. Add a Nickname column to the Address Book in View menu /
Columns or by control-clicking on any column header and adding "Nickname",
then drag it to be just to the right of the Name column. You will now see
the Last Name followed by the First Name. Sort as usual by Name column to
make it alphabetical by Last Name.
Here is a script to convert all your contact First Names to Nicknames :
tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
set theContacts to every contact
repeat with theContact in my theContacts
tell theContact
set firstName to first name as Unicode text
if firstName ‚ "" then
set nickname to firstName
set first name to ""
end if
end tell
end repeat
end tell
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Diane Ross, Microsoft Mac MVP
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