Recurring Calendar Events Show Wrong Date

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Martin Nelson

I've got this half figured out, but don't know what to do about it:

I've entered a lot of birthdays into my calendar as once-a-year (well,
duh) recurring events. This is a pretty nice thing to have pop up as a
reminder. As birthdays last all day I left the reminders as all day
events. HOWEVER. However, I recently moved from the Eastern Time Zone
to the Central Time Zone.

Well, all of those events (and there's a lot of them) that were
entered when my Office Preference (General>Calendar>Default time zone
for new events) was set to EST now think they begin an hour earlier
which is the previous day. So they're all showing up in my calendar a
day early. If I open them they show the correct date. I've changed the
time zone in my Office preferences AND in my Mac system preferences.
How do I correct everything that was done when I lived life an hour
later?

Martin
 
P

Paul Berkowitz

I've got this half figured out, but don't know what to do about it:

I've entered a lot of birthdays into my calendar as once-a-year (well,
duh) recurring events. This is a pretty nice thing to have pop up as a
reminder. As birthdays last all day I left the reminders as all day
events. HOWEVER. However, I recently moved from the Eastern Time Zone
to the Central Time Zone.

Well, all of those events (and there's a lot of them) that were
entered when my Office Preference (General>Calendar>Default time zone
for new events) was set to EST now think they begin an hour earlier
which is the previous day. So they're all showing up in my calendar a
day early. If I open them they show the correct date. I've changed the
time zone in my Office preferences AND in my Mac system preferences.
How do I correct everything that was done when I lived life an hour
later?
Click to expand...

Hi, Martin

Unfortunately, Time Zone properties of events are not scriptable. (I've been
asking for this for years, but they keep on ignoring it. It must not be
considered a high priority. Same with all the invitation features for
events. Maybe one day. Please make a feature request.) I've podged together
a clunky GUI script, which might work, or then again it might not. The
essential things (I know this sounds peculiar) that you must run it from
Script Editor, not from the Entourage script menu. It runs too fast from the
script menu, at least on my machine, and the event window is still called
"untitled" and there's no Event menu for GUI scripting to work on, so it
fails. Adding a delay doesn't help - everything just freezes.

OK. First you have to go to System Preferences in the Dock, click "Universal
Access". Check the box "Enable access for assistive devices".

Now go to Applications/AppleScript/Script Editor and open it. Paste the
following script into the window, but do not run it yet. Come back here.

Now, if you're in Entourage 2004, go to the Calendar area in Entourage. If
you're in Entourage X or 2001, go to the Custom View area.

If you're in 2004, you should see an "All Events" custom view already there.
If not, or if you're in X or 2001, you can make one. However, you'd be
better off in all cases if you have a smarter set of criteria for just the
events you're looking for. If not, make an All Events view of just Calendar
Events:

Item Types: ˆ Calendar events [only]
Match <if ANY criteria are met>
Category is None
Category Is not None

Sort by Name or Date, whichever is more appropriate for selecting the events
you want. If you have a narrow set of criteria, select all and command-click
to de-select events that don't belong. Otherwise shift-click a clump. then
command-click to select events that do belong.

OK. When you've got the correct events selected, make sure that the window
with the list of selected calendar events is in front (not this message!)
and has the focus (selection is colored until you move away from Entourage).

Now go to Script Editor, click the Compile button which should restore
formatting. Then click Run. Good luck. GUI scripting can be extremely wonky
at the best of times. Events which were originally created by script or sync
(including Palm sync) pop up an "Are you sure you want to change the time of
the invitation" window, as if these were invitations (dumb bug). The script
should take care of those two but might get out of phase and you might have
to click them closed later.

Here it is:

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
activate
try
set theEvents to the selection
if class of theEvents is not list then error number -128 -- focus
must be on selected events
on error
beep
display dialog "First you have to select some calendar events in a
calendar Custom View, and have the focus on the selected events." buttons
{"Cancel"} default button 1 with icon 0
return
end try
repeat with i from 1 to (count my theEvents)
set theEvent to item i of my theEvents
if class of theEvent is event then
activate
set eventName to name of theEvent
open theEvent
--try
my ChangeTimeZone()
--end try
close window eventName --saving yes
end if
end repeat
end tell

to ChangeTimeZone()
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Microsoft Entourage"
pick menu item "Central Time (US & Canada)" of menu 1 of menu
item "Time Zone" of menu "Event" of menu bar item "Event" of menu bar 1
pick menu item "Save" of menu "File" of menu bar item "File" of
menu bar 1 -- because need to confirm "OK" next
try
click button "OK" of window 1
end try
end tell
end tell
end ChangeTimeZone



There are ways of "internationalizing" this script using numbers instead of
names, or others can substitute the correct names of their menus and menu
items.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

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M

Martin Nelson

Paul Berkowitz said:
I've got this half figured out, but don't know what to do about it:

I've entered a lot of birthdays into my calendar as once-a-year (well,
duh) recurring events. This is a pretty nice thing to have pop up as a
reminder. As birthdays last all day I left the reminders as all day
events. HOWEVER. However, I recently moved from the Eastern Time Zone
to the Central Time Zone.

Well, all of those events (and there's a lot of them) that were
entered when my Office Preference (General>Calendar>Default time zone
for new events) was set to EST now think they begin an hour earlier
which is the previous day. So they're all showing up in my calendar a
day early. If I open them they show the correct date. I've changed the
time zone in my Office preferences AND in my Mac system preferences.
How do I correct everything that was done when I lived life an hour
later?
Click to expand...

Hi, Martin

Unfortunately, Time Zone properties of events are not scriptable. (I've been
asking for this for years, but they keep on ignoring it. It must not be
considered a high priority. Same with all the invitation features for
events. Maybe one day. Please make a feature request.) I've podged together
a clunky GUI script, which might work, or then again it might not. The
essential things (I know this sounds peculiar) that you must run it from
Script Editor, not from the Entourage script menu. It runs too fast from the
script menu, at least on my machine, and the event window is still called
"untitled" and there's no Event menu for GUI scripting to work on, so it
fails. Adding a delay doesn't help - everything just freezes.

OK. First you have to go to System Preferences in the Dock, click "Universal
Access". Check the box "Enable access for assistive devices".

Now go to Applications/AppleScript/Script Editor and open it. Paste the
following script into the window, but do not run it yet. Come back here.

Now, if you're in Entourage 2004, go to the Calendar area in Entourage. If
you're in Entourage X or 2001, go to the Custom View area.

If you're in 2004, you should see an "All Events" custom view already there.
If not, or if you're in X or 2001, you can make one. However, you'd be
better off in all cases if you have a smarter set of criteria for just the
events you're looking for. If not, make an All Events view of just Calendar
Events:

Item Types: ? Calendar events [only]
Match <if ANY criteria are met>
Category is None
Category Is not None

Sort by Name or Date, whichever is more appropriate for selecting the events
you want. If you have a narrow set of criteria, select all and command-click
to de-select events that don't belong. Otherwise shift-click a clump. then
command-click to select events that do belong.

OK. When you've got the correct events selected, make sure that the window
with the list of selected calendar events is in front (not this message!)
and has the focus (selection is colored until you move away from Entourage).

Now go to Script Editor, click the Compile button which should restore
formatting. Then click Run. Good luck. GUI scripting can be extremely wonky
at the best of times. Events which were originally created by script or sync
(including Palm sync) pop up an "Are you sure you want to change the time of
the invitation" window, as if these were invitations (dumb bug). The script
should take care of those two but might get out of phase and you might have
to click them closed later.

Here it is:

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
activate
try
set theEvents to the selection
if class of theEvents is not list then error number -128 -- focus
must be on selected events
on error
beep
display dialog "First you have to select some calendar events in a
calendar Custom View, and have the focus on the selected events." buttons
{"Cancel"} default button 1 with icon 0
return
end try
repeat with i from 1 to (count my theEvents)
set theEvent to item i of my theEvents
if class of theEvent is event then
activate
set eventName to name of theEvent
open theEvent
--try
my ChangeTimeZone()
--end try
close window eventName --saving yes
end if
end repeat
end tell

to ChangeTimeZone()
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Microsoft Entourage"
pick menu item "Central Time (US & Canada)" of menu 1 of menu
item "Time Zone" of menu "Event" of menu bar item "Event" of menu bar 1
pick menu item "Save" of menu "File" of menu bar item "File" of
menu bar 1 -- because need to confirm "OK" next
try
click button "OK" of window 1
end try
end tell
end tell
end ChangeTimeZone



There are ways of "internationalizing" this script using numbers instead of
names, or others can substitute the correct names of their menus and menu
items.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

Please "Reply To Newsgroup" to reply to this message. Emails will be
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Paul,

Sorry, I'm running Entourage X.

Wow, that's some process to fix this issue. I'm a little disturbed
that I have to go through such hoops, but I'm glad somone (you) has
gone through them before me.

Unfortunately, I am not adept at Applescript and I couldn't figure out
what the last character in your script was. I did as your extremely
clear instructions advised (and selecting the appropriate events was
easy as they are any that reccur yearly) and tried to run the script,
but I get the following error message: "Expected end of line, etc. but
found identifier."

The last line of my script reads, "end ChangeTimeZone " with a space
at the end of the line. I've tried removing the space and/or putting a
return or a period, but in all cases I get: "Expected end of line,
etc. but found plural class name." What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Martin
 
M

Martin Nelson

Paul Berkowitz said:
I've got this half figured out, but don't know what to do about it:

I've entered a lot of birthdays into my calendar as once-a-year (well,
duh) recurring events. This is a pretty nice thing to have pop up as a
reminder. As birthdays last all day I left the reminders as all day
events. HOWEVER. However, I recently moved from the Eastern Time Zone
to the Central Time Zone.

Well, all of those events (and there's a lot of them) that were
entered when my Office Preference (General>Calendar>Default time zone
for new events) was set to EST now think they begin an hour earlier
which is the previous day. So they're all showing up in my calendar a
day early. If I open them they show the correct date. I've changed the
time zone in my Office preferences AND in my Mac system preferences.
How do I correct everything that was done when I lived life an hour
later?
Click to expand...

Hi, Martin

Unfortunately, Time Zone properties of events are not scriptable. (I've been
asking for this for years, but they keep on ignoring it. It must not be
considered a high priority. Same with all the invitation features for
events. Maybe one day. Please make a feature request.) I've podged together
a clunky GUI script, which might work, or then again it might not. The
essential things (I know this sounds peculiar) that you must run it from
Script Editor, not from the Entourage script menu. It runs too fast from the
script menu, at least on my machine, and the event window is still called
"untitled" and there's no Event menu for GUI scripting to work on, so it
fails. Adding a delay doesn't help - everything just freezes.

OK. First you have to go to System Preferences in the Dock, click "Universal
Access". Check the box "Enable access for assistive devices".

Now go to Applications/AppleScript/Script Editor and open it. Paste the
following script into the window, but do not run it yet. Come back here.

Now, if you're in Entourage 2004, go to the Calendar area in Entourage. If
you're in Entourage X or 2001, go to the Custom View area.

If you're in 2004, you should see an "All Events" custom view already there.
If not, or if you're in X or 2001, you can make one. However, you'd be
better off in all cases if you have a smarter set of criteria for just the
events you're looking for. If not, make an All Events view of just Calendar
Events:

Item Types: ? Calendar events [only]
Match <if ANY criteria are met>
Category is None
Category Is not None

Sort by Name or Date, whichever is more appropriate for selecting the events
you want. If you have a narrow set of criteria, select all and command-click
to de-select events that don't belong. Otherwise shift-click a clump. then
command-click to select events that do belong.

OK. When you've got the correct events selected, make sure that the window
with the list of selected calendar events is in front (not this message!)
and has the focus (selection is colored until you move away from Entourage).

Now go to Script Editor, click the Compile button which should restore
formatting. Then click Run. Good luck. GUI scripting can be extremely wonky
at the best of times. Events which were originally created by script or sync
(including Palm sync) pop up an "Are you sure you want to change the time of
the invitation" window, as if these were invitations (dumb bug). The script
should take care of those two but might get out of phase and you might have
to click them closed later.

Here it is:

tell application "Microsoft Entourage"
activate
try
set theEvents to the selection
if class of theEvents is not list then error number -128 -- focus
must be on selected events
on error
beep
display dialog "First you have to select some calendar events in a
calendar Custom View, and have the focus on the selected events." buttons
{"Cancel"} default button 1 with icon 0
return
end try
repeat with i from 1 to (count my theEvents)
set theEvent to item i of my theEvents
if class of theEvent is event then
activate
set eventName to name of theEvent
open theEvent
--try
my ChangeTimeZone()
--end try
close window eventName --saving yes
end if
end repeat
end tell

to ChangeTimeZone()
tell application "System Events"
tell process "Microsoft Entourage"
pick menu item "Central Time (US & Canada)" of menu 1 of menu
item "Time Zone" of menu "Event" of menu bar item "Event" of menu bar 1
pick menu item "Save" of menu "File" of menu bar item "File" of
menu bar 1 -- because need to confirm "OK" next
try
click button "OK" of window 1
end try
end tell
end tell
end ChangeTimeZone



There are ways of "internationalizing" this script using numbers instead of
names, or others can substitute the correct names of their menus and menu
items.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

Please "Reply To Newsgroup" to reply to this message. Emails will be
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--
Click to expand...
Paul,

Hey, just spotted something not mentioned in my previous response.
After trying to run the script and getting: : "Expected end of line,
etc. but found plural class name" the word 'events' in the sixth line
of the script is highlighted. Does that help?

Thanks,
Martin
 
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Paul Berkowitz

Hey, just spotted something not mentioned in my previous response.
After trying to run the script and getting: : "Expected end of line,
etc. but found plural class name" the word 'events' in the sixth line
of the script is highlighted. Does that help?
Click to expand...

I specifically sent my message in HTML so that long lines would not be
broken by carriage returns inserted into plaintext by news clients.

it looks as if you're sending replies from a web browser which by definition
should leave HTML alone. I'm surprised that your browser, or Google (surely
not), has converted it into plaintext and inserted improper carriage returns
which is destroying the syntax.

I doubt you'd know enough AppleScript to be able to figure out which lines
are the long lines, but perhaps you can. That word 'events', for example,
should be on the 5th line, not the 6th. It's just part of a comment and not
part of the script. There are several other lines - the whole 'display
dialog up to 'icon 0' is one line, and the two 'pick menu item' lines are
one line each.

If you can restitute it in Script Editor, good. If not, you should subscribe
to this newsgroup in Entourage (or another newsreader) like other civilized
people, and copy and paste the script in HTML. Check the Entourage Help to
see how to subscribe to a newsgroup, or check the website in my signature,
or go back to MacTopia and click Newsreader instead of Browser.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

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M

Martin Nelson

Paul,

I'm surprised that your browser, or Google (surely
not), has converted it into plaintext and inserted improper carriage returns
which is destroying the syntax.
Click to expand...

I have been reading (and copying) these at Google Groups through my browser.
Per your instructions (>you should subscribe to this newsgroup in Entourage
(or another newsreader) like other civilized people<, very clear, but a
little harsh, I mean, jeez, I didn¹t know I could subscribe that way) I
subscribed through Entourage (v. X.1.4), found your first reply, copied,
pasted, did the rest as advised and got: ³Expected end of line but found
class name,² and when I cancelled out of that window the phrase Œmenu item¹
from the eighth line from the end of the script (where it appears as part of
Œpick menu item ³Central Time (US & Canada)²Š¹) was bolded.

Also of note, in your original instructions you say at one point to Œclick
the compile button.¹ I don¹t seem to have a compile button in Script Editor.
Is that new to Office 2004? Thanks for your help and continued patience.

Martin
 
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Paul Berkowitz

I have been reading (and copying) these at Google Groups through my browser.
Per your instructions (>you should subscribe to this newsgroup in Entourage
(or another newsreader) like other civilized people<, very clear, but a little
harsh, I mean, jeez, I didn¹t know I could subscribe that way) I subscribed
through Entourage (v. X.1.4), found your first reply, copied, pasted, did the
rest as advised and got: ³Expected end of line but found class name,² and when
I cancelled out of that window the phrase Œmenu item¹ from the eighth line
from the end of the script (where it appears as part of Œpick menu item
³Central Time (US & Canada)²Š¹) was bolded.

Also of note, in your original instructions you say at one point to Œclick the
compile button.¹ I don¹t seem to have a compile button in Script Editor. Is
that new to Office 2004? Thanks for your help and continued patience.
Click to expand...

Script Editor is an Apple app, nothing to do with Office. I think perhaps
you must be in Jaguar, not Panther? Script Editor 1.9 is the old Carbon app.
I suppose it must be getting just the plain text version from the clipboard
even when you've pasted styled text. I didn't realize that. (I haven't used
that old SE in many years - I have a commercial script editor.) OK.

In that case you have to manually remove the extra carriage returns inserted
by SE when pasting. If you go back to my message in Entourage, open the
message into its own window, and stretch the window very wide, you'll see
there are some long lines that unwrap onto one line. You may not even be
able to get the window wide enough to see that the 'display dialog' line is
all one line, but it is.

Back in Script Editor, position your cursor at the start of lines which have
hard-wrapped to be new lines, and delete the carriage return. Repeat with
other lines. It will still wrap but now at the window edges, like in
Entourage. Expanding the window wider should see the lines unwrap fluidly.
When all looks OK, click the 'Check Syntax" button (that's what the Compile
button is called in pre-Jaguar SE). If it errors (it makes absolutely no
difference what the error is) it means you missed removing a carriage return
or else overdid it and ran two words together without a space. use common
sense, keep looking back at my message, and you'll get it.



--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
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AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

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Martin Nelson

Paul,

I do hate to be a quitter, but I think I¹m about to give up.

First, and my apologies for not providing this sooner; I usually remember to
do so, but I¹m home stupid with the flu:

I'm running
Macintosh G4
Dual 800
1 GB RAM
OS X.2.8

Entourage 10.1.4
ScriptEditor 1.9

I am sharp enough to fully understand what you¹re telling me to do. And, as
I have two monitors hooked up, I can easily stretch your script out to
display lines to their full length. Here¹s the rub: I don¹t know whether
it¹s OS X.1.4 or the version of ScriptEditor or something else, but I seem
to be restricted to a limited number of characters per line. For example,
the first time I have a return where you didn¹t is with

display dialog "First you have to select some calendar events in a
calendar Custom View, and have the focus on the selected events." buttons
{"Cancel"} default button 1 with icon 0


I can copy and paste this from ScriptEditor to Entourage and it has no
returns (stretch your window and see), but in the SE window (no matter how
wide I stretch that window and no matter how often and in how many ways I
attempt to lose any hidden carriage returns) it always returns after
{³Cancel²}. It seems to be limiting itself to the size of my monitor even
when I¹m running the window through two monitors. Changing the monitor¹s
display resolution to accommodate more characters did nothing. Still returns
in the same place.

It occurred to me that there may be a preference in SE that might affect
this, but Preferences is grayed out in the pulldown menu.

As I said, I hate to be a quitter, but I do understand if you¹re tapped on
this one.

Martin
 
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Paul Berkowitz

Paul,

I do hate to be a quitter, but I think I¹m about to give up.

First, and my apologies for not providing this sooner; I usually remember to
do so, but I¹m home stupid with the flu:

I'm running
Macintosh G4
Dual 800
1 GB RAM
OS X.2.8

Entourage 10.1.4
ScriptEditor 1.9

I am sharp enough to fully understand what you¹re telling me to do. And, as I
have two monitors hooked up, I can easily stretch your script out to display
lines to their full length. Here¹s the rub: I don¹t know whether it¹s OS X.1.4
or the version of ScriptEditor or something else, but I seem to be restricted
to a limited number of characters per line. For example, the first time I have
a return where you didn¹t is with

display dialog "First you have to select some calendar events in a
calendar Custom View, and have the focus on the selected events." buttons
{"Cancel"} default button 1 with icon 0


I can copy and paste this from ScriptEditor to Entourage and it has no returns
(stretch your window and see), but in the SE window (no matter how wide I
stretch that window and no matter how often and in how many ways I attempt to
lose any hidden carriage returns) it always returns after {³Cancel²}. It seems
to be limiting itself to the size of my monitor even when I¹m running the
window through two monitors. Changing the monitor¹s display resolution to
accommodate more characters did nothing. Still returns in the same place.
Click to expand...
That's OK then. If it stretches here in Entourage (and it does) that shows
there's no carriage return. It's just a formatting thing thing in SE if it
wraps - that's a soft-wrap. (There is another way to do it, if we have to,
but I don't think it's necessary.) So did you "Check Syntax" after removing
carriage returns? It should work. If not, and you still get an error at the
beginning of the next line, insert an option-L ¬ at the hard-wrap line-end.
(Or press option return to get both a ¬ and a carriage return.)
It occurred to me that there may be a preference in SE that might affect this,
but Preferences is grayed out in the pulldown menu.

As I said, I hate to be a quitter, but I do understand if you¹re tapped on
this one.
Click to expand...

No need. You're nearly there.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
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AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

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M

Martin Nelson

That's OK then. If it stretches here in Entourage (and it does) that shows
there's no carriage return. It's just a formatting thing thing in SE if it
wraps - that's a soft-wrap. (There is another way to do it, if we have to, but
I don't think it's necessary.) So did you "Check Syntax" after removing
carriage returns? It should work. If not, and you still get an error at the
beginning of the next line, insert an option-L ¬ at the hard-wrap line-end.
(Or press option return to get both a ¬ and a carriage return.)
Click to expand...

OK, I¹ve checked line by line and the previously mentioned line is the only
one that returns (with a soft wrap) in a different place from your script.
Yet, when I ³Check Syntax² I still get, ³Expected end of line but found
class name,² and when I cancelled out of that window the phrase Œmenu item¹
from the eighth line from the end of the script (where it appears as part of
Œpick menu item ³Central Time (US & Canada)²Š¹) was highlighted. This seems
to be awfully far away from the line in question to be the first error
riffing off of it.

Everything seems to be growing dark...

Martin
 
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Paul Berkowitz

OK, I¹ve checked line by line and the previously mentioned line is the only
one that returns (with a soft wrap) in a different place from your script.
Yet, when I ³Check Syntax² I still get, ³Expected end of line but found class
name,² and when I cancelled out of that window the phrase Œmenu item¹ from the
eighth line from the end of the script (where it appears as part of Œpick menu
item ³Central Time (US & Canada)²Š¹) was highlighted. This seems to be awfully
far away from the line in question to be the first error riffing off of it.
Click to expand...

OK, sorry. You're in Jaguar, not Panther. GUI scripting does not work in
Panther. All the keywords in the "System Events" block to do with GUI
scripting, i.e. beginning with 'pick menu item' won't compile or work in
Jaguar. Originally, before Panther came out, there was a beta version of
System Events where this did work. But it has not been available since
Panther came out. When you upgrade to Panther or Tiger, you'll be able to do
this. Not only that - you won't have to worry about line breaks in Script
Editor 2.0.


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Paul Berkowitz
MVP Entourage
Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq/index.html>
AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>

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